On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 05:23:19PM +0200, Hervé Eychenne wrote:
> > I'm in touch with Guillaume Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in order to package > > one of my application for Debian, called ulog. FYI, it intends to be the > > distributed equivalent of utmp/wtmp for X-window. > Just FYI, the proper name is the "X Window System". Simply "X" can be used > for short. Hey, I could have said X windows... ;-) Please excuse my poor English. > > So I'll have to add an entry to /etc/X11/xdm/xdm.options, called "use-ulog". > > As the xdm package maintainer, I suppose I have to ask you if you would mind > > adding this entry in you package and what is the exact procedure. > I'm not sure it is necessary to add options to xdm.options to accomplish > what you have in mind. It seems to me the most natural way, as the ulog mecanism is the equivalent of utmp/wtmp for X, like I said, and the ulog command is the equivalent of sessreg. > I need to know nore about ulog first. In the beginning was the command line, and the console. So, a single screen. Then appeared who, w, write, talk, last. Well. Then appeared X, and xterms... And these prior commands suddenly got a bit old and inadequate. Several shells on different hosts at a time contained in xterms on different virtual screens, some iconified, some not... Talk and write were already dead... The w command truncates the originating host to 16 poor chars... Some of the information given by who is often false... Last relies on a the same files and has the same problems. The X-related information given by these tools looks to me a bit like quick tricks in order to take displays into account. Figure out a university with free access to terminals. Try to figure out who is currently or who was physically (X session) logged in on which display or which host, in a whole bunch of rooms full of X terminals handled by xdm on several hosts in several floors or even buildings... I wish you good luck, really. So there had to be a way of logging the adequate information about all these xdm login/logout events. So I did it. It is called ulog. The actual code is far from being perfect and ulog is currently under development, but it seems to work and quite a lot of functionnalities are already available, so I already consider doing a Debian package in order to simplify the installation on several hosts. Well, for "real life" tests. ;-) More information on http://www.ulog.org/ Hervé -- _ (°= Hervé Eychenne //) Libre Software Engineer v_/_
