How do your Xterminals connect to the server? XDMCP?
or do they telnet first and then start X clients with DISPLAY set?
if XDMCP, What flavor of XDM do you run? XDM? GDM? KDM?
These may have resources or optionsto enable UTMP logging when
the users login.
If telnet or some other remote login protocol is used, then
when Login is run it should make entries in UTMP for them.
As far as I know only Login, or XDM like programs should be recording
these entries.
-Kyle
Eric Nodwell wrote:
>>I don't know if it makes a difference, but I've always used "w" and
>>"who" to get this list (actually never heard of users ...). Maybe they
>>work better for you ...
>>
>
> "w" and "who" report exactly the same users as "users" and "finger",
> which is typically about 50% of the users actually logged in, plus
> maybe one or two users who aren't actually logged in.
>
>
>
>>udo
>>
>>Am Don, 2002-05-16 um 19.15 schrieb Eric Nodwell:
>>
>>>users and finger seem to be broken. They certainly don't report all
>>>the users who are logged in. We have a Mandrake 8.2 server with
>>>several X-terminals.
>>>
>>>This doesn't seem to be a Mandrake-specific problem: they are also
>>>broken on our server running Debian Linux. From discussion on Debian
>>>mailing lists, it seems that this comes about because some programs
>>>don't write to /var/run/utmp correctly. Is there any solution to this
>>>problem? Any alternative way to get a list of users logged on, and
>>>info such as how long they've been logged on?
>>>
>>>thanks,
>>>Eric
>>>
>>>
>>>
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