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bug#21349: who shows no users nowadays on Debian
From: |
Sven Joachim |
Subject: |
bug#21349: who shows no users nowadays on Debian |
Date: |
Wed, 26 Aug 2015 22:31:13 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5.50 (gnu/linux) |
On 2015-08-26 22:13 +0200, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Erik Auerswald wrote:
>> This works on a current Debian/testing system (stable as well), so it might
>> be a recent Debian/Sid (unstable) issue. Perhaps you want to open a bug
>> report there?
>
> Updating utmp depends upon the terminal emulator. XTerm updates it.
> Any XTerm user will be logged in utmp. I use XTerms and all of my
> terminals log as a user in utmp. But most other terminal emulators
> ignore utmp and don't log anything. If they don't log it then there
> isn't anything 'who' can do about it.
>
> AFAIK it doesn't have anything to do with Debian changing anything.
It most probably has, the latest xterm version (319) only writes a utmp
entry if you start a login shell (i.e. use the -ls option). That's
supposed to be a bug fix[1].
Cheers,
Sven
1. https://bugs.debian.org/794201