On Sat, Nov 7, 2020 at 10:22 PM Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> wrote: > On 06Nov2020 21:50, Tom Horsley <horsley1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> For as long as I can remember I've run dnf update in a root >> xterm and when all the akmod activity and wot-not is finished, >> I've run reboot from another terminal. >> >> Now, it won't reboot "because root is logged in". >> >> Gah! Who cares if root is logged in? >> >> Can I disable this helpful feature any way? > > Dunno, but maybe you can disable what it measures. Do your xterms > make entries in wtmp (listed by "w" and "who")? Is so, ISTR that > xterm has an option to not do that (look for "wtmp" in the manual > IIRC). See if disabling that helps.
"w" and "who" look at "/var/run/utmp". "last" looks at "/var/log/wtmp". You can use "xterm*utmpInhibit: true" in "~/.Xresources" to prevent xterm from updating utmp. But it's hard to believe that this is what's messing with the other Tom H's system. Maybe... _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
