Bug 1381

Summary:	Utmpd not running
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide	Reporter:	Joseph Malicki <malicki.1>
Component:	initscripts	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	1.0	CC:	rvokal
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Description Joseph Malicki 1999-03-01 11:03:34 UTC

In glibc 2.1 it appears that a daemon, utmpd, is required to
do utmp logging.  In Rawhide 1.2.7-1.2.9 at least, it does
not appear to run by default, so it must be manually started
for any user logging to occur.  Perhaps it should even
appear in /etc/inittab w/ respawn to prevent it from being
killed, rather than the initscripts?  The approach of
logging who is on the system by a daemon seems to be rather
suspect to begin with....

Comment 1 Joseph Malicki 1999-03-01 13:55:59 UTC

Oops!  It seems that utmpd is not needed, but the "who" command in the
current sh-utils  reads /var/run/utmp rather than /var/run/utmpx

Comment 2 Cristian Gafton 1999-03-18 23:41:59 UTC

utmpd is not needed is you do not have legacy programs that want to
write directly to the utmp file.