On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 08:17:50PM +0100, Andy Smith wrote:
> Having merged rxvt in gentoo I tried this, but rxvt seems to close
> itself immediately when the -e option is used.  "rxvt" by itself
> does provide me with a working terminal on the local machine, and
> "rxvt -e bash" does too, but pretty much anything else after the -e
> leads to the terminal just closing itself flashing away too fast to
> see any output or errors (if there were any).

More investigation with strace revealed that rxvt was trying to open
the utmp file.  By running with rxvt -ut it now works for me.  I
guess I never had the utmp option enabled before.

Whether this is the best solution I do not know.

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