console window question

[Robert Brockway]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Tim Writer wrote:

> Strangely, this does not:
>
>    konsole -e login
>
> giving this error:
>
>    No utmp entry.  You must exec "login" from the lowest level "sh"

I've seen this when utmp was not where the app was expecting it[1].  utmp 
has lived in various places over the life of Unix.  All the apps on a 
particular Linux distro are supposed to all look for it in the same place 
but mistakes do happen.  Consider using strace to see where konsole is 
expecting to find utmp.  The solution would then be a symlink.

[1] Although this was not the only circumstance that I've seen this with.

Rob

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