A list of help needed

Corinna Vinschen cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Apr 18 00:48:00 GMT 2001


On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 08:27:31AM +1000, Neil Lunn wrote:
> > > 3)  When I type 'who' i get the response 'who: /var/run/utmp
> > > '. Is this supose to be that way? If not how can I correct this?
> > 
> > That's ok. It's empty since you didn't login to the system.
> > Using Cygwin from the console window doesn't leave footprints
> > in /var/run/utmp.
> 
> Why? There should be no reason why not.
> ie bash --login
> 
> No one else logging in to a system appears to leave footprints in
> /var/run/utmp either.

Beep. 0 points. If you login via telnet/rsh/rlogin or ssh that leaves
footprints in /var/run/utmp. If you start a windows console it's not
a login. And it's not the task of a shell to create these entries.

Corinna

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