From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011126 Netscape6/6.2.1 Description of problem: rxvt does not write a utmp extry. rxvt has no suid bit, but then again, nor does xterm which *does* write a utmp entry. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.start rxvt 2.do a "w" command 3.observe Actual Results: i did not see an entry for the rxvt window in utmp. Expected Results: i should be seeing an entry for the rxvt window in utmp. Additional info: i have the latest patches and updates installed (27/08/2002)
and $ rxvt -ls to make a login shell???
that doesn't work either, but since you asked me this, can i assume it *does* work on your testmachines? rxvt has the same problem in redhat 8.
there is no rxvt in 8... but you are right... rxvt should use utempter so rxvt +ut -ls should work...
there should be an erratum soon, which will fix the issue... watch out for #84587 to get closed.