Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 09:48:34 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: Re: A list of help needed Message-ID: <20010418094834.J15962@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" References: <12F176DD950ED411B68E0050DA14ED1033872D@jupiter.gunzphoto.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <12F176DD950ED411B68E0050DA14ED1033872D@jupiter.gunzphoto.com.au>; from neillunn@gunz.com.au on Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 08:27:31AM +1000 On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 08:27:31AM +1000, Neil Lunn wrote: > > > 3) When I type 'who' i get the response 'who: /var/run/utmp > > > '. Is this supose to be that way? If not how can I correct this? > > > > That's ok. It's empty since you didn't login to the system. > > Using Cygwin from the console window doesn't leave footprints > > in /var/run/utmp. > > Why? There should be no reason why not. > ie bash --login > > No one else logging in to a system appears to leave footprints in > /var/run/utmp either. Beep. 0 points. If you login via telnet/rsh/rlogin or ssh that leaves footprints in /var/run/utmp. If you start a windows console it's not a login. And it's not the task of a shell to create these entries. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple