On Thu, Oct 19, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
I used to be able to see in the output of /usr/bin/w all the xterms I had open. This is no longer the case, and I see that as a regression.
There are no active SRs for either of the two.
From "man utmp": "utmp, wtmp - login records" Your xterm session is no login session, so that xterm writes utmp entries was wrong from the beginning (and gnome-terminal is not doing it for this reason). Historical, xterm wrote utmp entries so that the user sees wall messages. But this needs to be solved by the desktop environment, not by the wrong claim to be a login session. So it's not a regression, it's a bug fix. And maybe even a security fix, as you are now no longer able to block root from login by opening too many xterms. Fixes at the same time the problem, that monitoring tools showed always a wrong number of logged in users if somebody did use xterm. And it cannot be that big problem if you notice that only today. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk, Distinguished Engineer, Senior Architect, Future Technologies SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, Frankenstraße 146, 90461 Nuernberg, Germany Managing Director: Ivo Totev, Andrew McDonald, Werner Knoblich (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg)