Re: [XFree86] Re: xterm utmp question
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 bin246588 Mar 2 02:52 /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm Ah, thank you! I don't suppose I have to explain why that's a Really Bad Approach. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Floridahttp://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 OS X: Because making Unix user-friendly was easier than debugging Windows -- Simon Slavin, on a.f.c ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
[XFree86] Re: xterm utmp question
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 PROTECTED]:~$ w 12:05:27 up 18 min, 1 user, load average: 0.13, 0.54, 0.62 USER TTYLOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ (this is with the one I built) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ w 12:05:47 up 19 min, 2 users, load average: 0.30, 0.55, 0.62 USER TTYLOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT war pts/7 12:050.00s 0.03s 0.01s w [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps auxww|grep xterm|wc 8 1551146 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ How come my xterms do not show up when I type w or who, etc? But using the /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm works fine? -- T.E.Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
[XFree86] Re: xterm utmp question
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 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 PROTECTED]:~$ w 12:05:27 up 18 min, 1 user, load average: 0.13, 0.54, 0.62 USER TTYLOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ (this is with the one I built) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ w 12:05:47 up 19 min, 2 users, load average: 0.30, 0.55, 0.62 USER TTYLOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT war pts/7 12:050.00s 0.03s 0.01s w [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps auxww|grep xterm|wc 8 1551146 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ How come my xterms do not show up when I type w or who, etc? But using the /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm works fine? -- T.E.Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- T.E.Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
[XFree86] Re: xterm utmp question
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 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 PROTECTED]:~$ w 12:05:27 up 18 min, 1 user, load average: 0.13, 0.54, 0.62 USER TTYLOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ (this is with the one I built) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ w 12:05:47 up 19 min, 2 users, load average: 0.30, 0.55, 0.62 USER TTYLOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT war pts/7 12:050.00s 0.03s 0.01s w [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps auxww|grep xterm|wc 8 1551146 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ How come my xterms do not show up when I type w or who, etc? But using the /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm works fine? -- T.E.Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- T.E.Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
[XFree86] Re: xterm utmp question
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
