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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!karl From: karl@NeoSoft.com (Karl Lehenbauer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: (386BSD) finger Message-ID: <1992Aug23.150825.15374@NeoSoft.com> Date: 23 Aug 92 15:08:25 GMT References: <AeZf8Pi00WB3EqYkQj@andrew.cmu.edu> Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Lines: 17 In article <AeZf8Pi00WB3EqYkQj@andrew.cmu.edu> Tao Jiang <tj2n+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes: >I had a problem in using finger (or users etc.) command in X386. >Whenever I execute finger, it says that: No one logged on. But >this can not be true. If I use finger without x386 runing, I get >the correct response. This is caused by your xterm sessions coming in through pty pseudoterminals which do not, by default, have utmp entries written for them when they start up. Consequently anything that looks at /etc/utmp, including ttyname(3), won't find your session. If you start xterm with the +ut option, it should appear in finger, who, and so forth. -- -- Email info@NeoSoft.com for info on getting interactive Internet access. You will now awaken feeling relaxed and refreshed, remembering everything you've read except the details of the Omega contingency plan.