Hello, My name is Stef. Since some weeks now I'm trying to find out if there are any rules/procedures to handle utmp.
I've been looking at the code of login (part of the shadow package) and kdm (part of kdebase). They handle utmprecords different. Login does look for a record, already created by init, and updates that record. I can see that happen, but why is that? KDM does not look for any records, and so does not update any thing. When user is logged in with login, a new record is created in the utmp database, but with the pid of the login process, not with the pid of the application of what the user is doing ( a shell for example). When user is logged in with KDM, also a new record is created, but then with the pid of what the user is doing! For example /bin/sh startkde. This is different! Does anybody know about how UTMP, or where I can find documentation about it? I've posted already on the shadow maillist, but no reply! Stef Bon linux.bononline.nl www.bononline.nl -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
