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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 09:48:34 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: A list of help needed
Message-ID: <20010418094834.J15962@cygbert.vinschen.de>
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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

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