Re: [XFree86] Re: xterm utmp question

2003-07-09 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 06:24:41PM -0400, war wrote: On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Thomas E. Dickey wrote: On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, war wrote: Slackware Linux 9.0 on Slackware, utmp is owned by root, so xterm has to be setuid'd to root so it can modify that file: -rws--x--x1 root bin

[XFree86] Re: xterm utmp question

2003-07-08 Thread war
Slackware Linux 9.0 GCC 3.3 On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Thomas E. Dickey wrote: On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, war wrote: I build the latest xterm (xterm-179) from http://invisible-island.net/xterm/. With and without --with-utemper option. What type of system? (Linux, Unix, etc). [EMAIL

[XFree86] Re: xterm utmp question

2003-07-08 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, war wrote: Slackware Linux 9.0 on Slackware, utmp is owned by root, so xterm has to be setuid'd to root so it can modify that file: -rws--x--x1 root bin246588 Mar 2 02:52 /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm GCC 3.3 On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Thomas E. Dickey wrote: On

[XFree86] Re: xterm utmp question

2003-07-08 Thread war
Ah, thank you! On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Thomas E. Dickey wrote: On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, war wrote: Slackware Linux 9.0 on Slackware, utmp is owned by root, so xterm has to be setuid'd to root so it can modify that file: -rws--x--x1 root bin246588 Mar 2 02:52 /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm

[XFree86] Re: xterm utmp question

2003-07-08 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, war wrote: Ah, thank you! no problem -- T.E.Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86