i assigned it under rxvt, maybe it is a utemper or glibc problem, but as i don't had more information i just put it under rxvt... under Lorax 6.0.55 when you use a Eterm or gnome-terminal, and you use who or w command, you can see what PTY you had assigned, under 6.1 (Update From 6.0.55) the didn't show up, but PTY are allocated. [synflood@ENDOR RPMS]$ ls -al /dev/pts/ total 36 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Oct 5 01:06 . drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 36864 Oct 5 01:06 .. crw--w---- 1 synflood tty 136, 0 Oct 5 01:54 0 crw--w---- 1 synflood tty 136, 1 Oct 5 01:54 1 but who or w only shows the users at the VT's not the PTY's [synflood@ENDOR RPMS]$ w 1:55am up 49 min, 2 users, load average: 0.10, 0.30, 0.47 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT root tty1 - 1:06am 20:09 0.12s 0.11s -bash synflood tty2 - 1:06am 47:26 47.45s 0.01s startx Any comment please e-mail me for more details..
these terminals need to be explicitly told to make utmp entries. For instance, on gnome-terminal, do gnome-terminal --utmp