Hello, Thanks to everyone for your suggestions.
I configured xdm to update utmp and wtmp using /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config The "last" command now registers login and logout. But the command "who" and "w" still do not list the current users logged in. They list only the most recent user logged in. # who admin tty1 May 9 10:08 user1 in048.intern:0 May 9 11:55 I get strange results in my "last" output like "gone - no logout". Here is an extract: ---snip--------- user1 in048.intern Mon May 9 11:55 gone - no logout user2 in046.intern Mon May 9 11:47 gone - no logout user3 pts/1 Mon May 9 11:30 - 11:33 (00:03) user4 in024.intern Mon May 9 11:30 - 11:42 (00:12) user5 in046.intern Mon May 9 11:28 - 11:46 (00:17) user6 in022.intern Mon May 9 11:28 - 11:34 (00:06) user7 in007.intern Mon May 9 11:25 - 11:55 (00:30) user7 in050.intern Mon May 9 11:23 gone - no logout user8 in041.intern Mon May 9 11:22 gone - no logout -----snap----------- Here is an extract of xdm-config. -----snip--------- !DisplayManager._0.authorize: true DisplayManager*authorize: true ! The following three resources set up display :0 as the console. DisplayManager*setup: /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 DisplayManager*startup: /etc/X11/xdm/GiveConsole DisplayManager*reset: /etc/X11/xdm/TakeConsole ! DisplayManager*resources: /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources DisplayManager*session: /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession DisplayManager*authComplain: false -----snap---------- Is there some misconfiguration? Thanks in advance Mahesh M. --- Jim McQuillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mahesh, > > The problem is, on your system, XDM isn't configured > to update utmp and > wtmp, so the users don't show up as logged in, even > tho they have > definately logged in. > > Derek Dresser wrote up some notes on how to fix > this. It's on the LTSP > contrib page. You might find enough info there to > fix your problem. > > Jim McQuillan > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > On Wed, 4 May 2005, Mahesh M. wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Thanks for reply. I tried "last -a |grep still". > It > > also gives the list of users who have a terminal > open. > > Users who have only graphical applications running > are > > not listed. > > > > I examined the output of "last -a" it maintains > only > > the history of users who have opened a terminal. > > > > Could there be a configuration error in > XDM/IceWM/NIS? > > > > regards, > > Mahesh M. > > > > > > > > > > --- Gideon Romm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > last -a|grep still > > > > > > On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 09:27, Mahesh M. wrote: > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I want to find out who are the users currently > > > logged > > > > in to the ltsp server. But when I use command > > > "who" i > > > > get only users who have opened any terminal > > > "xterm". > > > > The users who are logged in and using only > > > graphical > > > > applications like opera, xpdf etc are not > listed. > > > But > > > > when i use "top" to list the processes i can > see > > > the > > > > users and the applications they are running. > > > > > > > > The ltsp server I am using is configured as a > NIS > > > > client authenticating from a separate NIS > server. > > > I > > > > use XDM login, IceWM-1.2.20 desktop. > > > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > > > > > best regards, > > > > Mahesh M. > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! 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