> How do your Xterminals connect to the server? XDMCP?
Yup.

> What flavor of XDM do you run? XDM? GDM? KDM?
kdm

> These may have resources or optionsto enable UTMP logging when
> the users login.

I searched for "kdm utmp" in google, and came up with this:

http://docs.kde.org/2.2.2/kdenetwork/ktalkd/questions-and-answers.html

I followed Procedure 3.1, which bascially involves creating an
/etc/X11/xdm/Xstartup and /etc/X11/xdm/Xreset, both of which call
sessreg.  Then modified /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config and
/usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc to use these files.  It *seems* to work,
but I can't tell for sure yet, because I can't really ask everyone to
log out and log in again.  In a day or two it should be clear if it
works.

Thanks,
Eric

> 
> 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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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
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> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> 
> 

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