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Re[2]: problem with utmp file (fwd)



edgardo@ccc.uba.ar (Edgardo Szulsztein) wrote:

>  Thanks for the help. However, the logname commands continues with the
>  same message. 

Check also /etc/wtmp, which should be symbolic link to /var/adm/wtmp

>  Also, I saw that the who command shows only the login of
>  the terminals, but doesn't show the xterm windows opened in X.

That's likely because xterm isn't suid root in your installation. chmod 4755
/usr/X11/bin/xterm (and same for color_xterm etc)

Evgeny

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