console window question

[Tim Writer]

Robert Brockway <rbrockway-wgAaPJgzrDxH4x6Dk/4f9A at public.gmane.org> writes:

> 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.

No, the error's from login so it's something to do with how konsole starts
login compared with how xterm starts it.

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