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Re: DXTerm Bug

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kari E. Hurtta)
Thu Jun 13 13:25:08 1996

Date: 	Thu, 13 Jun 1996 19:51:25 +0300
Reply-To: Bugtraq List <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
From: "Kari E. Hurtta" <Kari.Hurtta@dionysos.fmi.fi>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
In-Reply-To:  <009A3C99.3927615F.23@samba.cnb.uam.es> from "J.R.Valverde" at
              "Jun 13, 96 10:11:59 am"

J.R.Valverde kirjoittaa:
> That's an old well known... wossname??? thingy! The same happens with xterm
> and almost anything that gives you a 'nonlogin' shell. Well, actually with
> everything _but_ login shells.

utmp entry is wriitten by xterm -- not by shell. It is controlled by
xterm's options:        +ut and -ut

Login shell is controlled by
xterm's options:        +ls ans -ls

> Login shells make a note on the log file to indicate you were there. Non-
> login shells (or subshells) on the other hand don't.

No -- it is done by programs what starts login shells....

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