Re: HEADS UP: <utmp.h> gone. All welcome <utmpx.h>.

On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 00:32:16 +0100
Ed Schouten <ed_at_80386.nl> wrote:

> * Vincent Poy <vincepoy_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > 3) I noticed that it seems the system in the w, who, finger, last,
> > lastlogin output is not recognizing additional sessions of the same user on
> > a new tty if they are already logged in such as this example.  I am already
> > logged in as vince on ptys/0 so I login again as vince on ptys/1:
> > <snip>
> 
> This is very odd. Could you try debugging this a bit more? In order to
> ease debugging, I extended the getent command. You should be able to use
> the following commands:
> 
> - getent utmpx active
>   Get list of active sessions (`utmp')
> - getent utmpx log
>   Get list of log entries (`wtmp')
> - getent utmpx lastlogin
>   Get list of last login entries (`lastlog')
> 
> When you log in, it should add a "user process" entry to the active
> sessions database, append the same entry to the log and overwrite the
> lastlogin entry for the corresponding user.
> 
> An advantage of these commands is that they just perform a raw dump of
> the data on screen, instead of having many forms of unwanted processing
> on top.
> 

What terminal emulator are you using?  I'm using mrxvt-devel and I _do_
see every mrxvt which I have running with w, who, finger and last.

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Gary Jennejohn