Bug 160517 - X pseudo-terminals are not registered in utmp and wtmp if parent tty session is closed
Summary: X pseudo-terminals are not registered in utmp and wtmp if parent tty session ...
Status: Open
Alias: None
Product: Base System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: misc (show other bugs)
Version: 8.2-STABLE
Hardware: Any Any
: Normal Affects Only Me
Assignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody)
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Reported: 2011-09-06 15:30 UTC by Renato Tambellini
Modified: 2017-12-31 22:32 UTC (History)
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Description Renato Tambellini 2011-09-06 15:30:01 UTC 
The pseudo-terminals (pts) allocated by xterm, rxvt and possibly others X terminal emulators are not registered in the utmp and wtmp files if the session of tty that called the X session is closed. Consequently the pts sessions not appears in the list of sessions of commands last(1), who(1), w(1) and others that depends of utmp and wtmp entries to run properly.

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How-To-Repeat: 1) Make a login in the system tty console eg: ttyv0
2) Run the command: startx & exit
3) Open a xterm or rxvt using the window manager
4) Do commands last, who or w and verify that this session not appear in the list.
Comment 1 Eitan Adler freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2017-12-31 08:00:31 UTC 
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Status: In Progress Changed: (is less than) 2014-06-01

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