MirBSD manpage: sessreg(1)


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NAME

     sessreg - manage utmp/wtmp entries for non-init clients

SYNOPSIS

     sessreg [-w wtmp-file] [-u utmp-file] [-l line-name] [-h
     host-name] [-s slot-number] [-x Xservers-file] [-t ttys-
     file] [-a] [-d] user-name

DESCRIPTION

     Sessreg is a simple program for managing utmp/wtmp entries
     for xdm sessions.

     System V has a better interface to /etc/utmp than BSD; it
     dynamically allocates entries in the file, instead of writ-
     ing them at fixed positions indexed by position in
     /etc/ttys.

     To manage BSD-style utmp files, sessreg has two strategies.
     In conjunction with xdm, the -x option counts the number of
     lines in /etc/ttys and then adds to that the number of the
     line in the Xservers file which specifies the display.  The
     display name must be specified as the "line-name" using the
     -l option.  This sum is used as the "slot-number" in
     /etc/utmp that this entry will be written at.  In the more
     general case, the -s option specifies the slot-number
     directly.  If for some strange reason your system uses a
     file other that /etc/ttys to manage init, the -t option can
     direct sessreg to look elsewhere for a count of terminal
     sessions.

     Conversely, System V managers will not ever need to use
     these options (-x, -s and -t).  To make the program easier
     to document and explain, sessreg accepts the BSD-specific
     flags in the System V environment and ignores them.

     BSD and Linux also have a host-name field in the utmp file
     which doesn't exist in System V.  This option is also
     ignored by the System V version of sessreg.

USAGE

     In Xstartup, place a call like:

            sessreg -a -l $DISPLAY -x /usr/X11R6/lib/xdm/Xservers $USER

     and in Xreset:

            sessreg -d -l $DISPLAY -x /usr/X11R6/lib/xdm/Xservers $USER

OPTIONS

     -w wtmp-file
          This specifies an alternate wtmp file, instead of
          /usr/adm/wtmp for BSD or /etc/wtmp for sysV.  The

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          special name "none" disables writing records to
          /usr/adm/wtmp.

     -u utmp-file
          This specifies an alternate utmp file, instead of
          "/etc/utmp".  The special name "none" disables writing
          records to /etc/utmp.

     -l line-name
          This describes the "line" name of the entry.  For ter-
          minal sessions, this is the final pathname segment of
          the terminal device filename (e.g. ttyd0).  For X ses-
          sions, it should probably be the local display name
          given to the users session (e.g. :0).  If none is
          specified, the terminal name will be determined with
          ttyname(3) and stripped of leading components.

     -h host-name
          This is set for BSD hosts to indicate that the session
          was initiated from a remote host.  In typical xdm
          usage, this options is not used.

     -s slot-number
          Each potential session has a unique slot number in BSD
          systems, most are identified by the position of the
          line-name in the /etc/ttys file. This option overrides
          the default position determined with ttyslot(3). This
          option is inappropriate for use with xdm, the -x option
          is more useful.

     -x Xservers-file
          As X sessions are one-per-display, and each display is
          entered in this file, this options sets the slot-number
          to be the number of lines in the ttys-file plus the
          index into this file that the line-name is found.

     -t ttys-file
          This specifies an alternate file which the -x option
          will use to count the number of terminal sessions on a
          host.

     -a   This session should be added to utmp/wtmp.

     -d   This session should be deleted from utmp/wtmp.  One of
          -a/-d must be specified.

SEE ALSO

     xdm(1)

AUTHOR

     Keith Packard, MIT X Consortium

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