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Bug 75408

Summary: pts not correctly being displayed with current user
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Kevin <kevymac>
Component: gnome-terminalAssignee: Havoc Pennington <hp>
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Description Kevin 2002-10-08 04:31:53 UTC
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Description of problem:
Gnome-terminal is not correctly utilizing pseudoterminals. When firing up
gnome-terminal from the menu, it is not displayed as being logged in to the
local machine via a pts if you run the 'w' command or the 'who' command. In
previous versions, one would see themselves logged in via ptsN where N is a
number. This breaks functionality of other utilities such as write, since one
cannot write to a pts that is not available via the 'who' command.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.fire up gnome-terminal from the menu
2.execute either 'w' or 'who' from the command line
3.watch as you don't see yourself on a pseudoterminal
	

Actual Results:  I wasn't able to see myself logged in on a pts unless I use ps.


Expected Results:  should display myself being logged in on ptsN from display :N


Additional info:

I haven't really looked into this too much, but other people on the mailing list
are experiencing the same problems. All default packages. I tried both options
of gnome-terminal using the --login, also tried enabling it to use wtmp, etc...
nothing works.

Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2002-10-08 13:40:03 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 71368 ***