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Hi.  I'm having a problem with "w" "who" and rxvt.  If I fire up xterm as a
login shell, the login shows up in w who and finger.  However, if I run rxvt
as a login shell, it doesn't report the login with w who and finger.

  Now, i've gotten and compiled rxvt-2.16 and 2.18b2.  I have made sure that
I set USE_UTMP in the compile options.  I have chowned it root.bin and
chmoded it u+s.  However, it still doesn't work.
  I also tried chowning it root.root.  That didn't work either.

  v2.16 makes you pick SYSV style utmp or BSD style utmp.  I've tried it
both ways.  

  Also, looking at the strace output it seems like it's opening and writting
to utmp, but it's not showing up.  

 I'm using kernel 2.0.3, libc 5.0.9. Gcc 2.7.0.

HELP!  Thanks.

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Quote:>  I'm using kernel 2.0.3, libc 5.0.9. Gcc 2.7.0.

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Quote:>  Now, i've gotten and compiled rxvt-2.16 and 2.18b2.  I have made sure that
>I set USE_UTMP in the compile options.  I have chowned it root.bin and
>chmoded it u+s.  However, it still doesn't work.
>  I also tried chowning it root.root.  That didn't work either.
>  v2.16 makes you pick SYSV style utmp or BSD style utmp.  I've tried it
>both ways.  

---s--s--x   1 root     root        40148 Apr 24 08:11 /usr/X11/bin/rxvt

And here are my definitions about utmp and wtmp:

--- src/feature.h.orig  Tue Apr  2 20:00:00 1996

  *     for BSD-type systems, to define where the tty table is located
  *     if it isn't /etc/ttytab
  *----------------------------------------------------------------------*/
-/* #define UTMP_SUPPORT */
+#define UTMP_SUPPORT
 #ifdef UTMP_SUPPORT
-/* #define USE_SYSV_UTMP */
+#define USE_SYSV_UTMP
 /* #define USE_BSD_UTMP */
 #ifndef UTMP_FILENAME
-/* #  define UTMP_FILENAME     "/var/adm/utmp" */
+#define UTMP_FILENAME  "/var/run/utmp"
 /* #  define UTMP_FILENAME     "/var/adm/utmp" */
 #endif
 #ifndef TTYTAB_FILENAME
--- src/utmp.c.orig     Tue Apr  2 20:00:00 1996

 /* WTMP_SUPPORT added pwp 95-12-07 */
 #ifdef UTMP_SUPPORT
-# define WTMP_SUPPORT
+/* # define WTMP_SUPPORT */
 # include <errno.h>
 # ifdef HAVE_FCNTL_H
 #  include <fcntl.h>