broadcast messages

[Michael Traxler]

Hi,

yes, I tried the +ut option.
And no, my /var/run/utmp is not world-writable:
  % ls -lrta /var/run/utmp
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 18432  6. Jan 08:32 /var/run/utmp

xterm seems to use a method which doesn't need write access to /var/run/utmp.

Michael

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On Mon, 6 Jan 2014, Marc Lehmann wrote:

> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 04:32:06 +0100
> From: Marc Lehmann <schmorp at schmorp.de>
> To: Michael Traxler <M.Traxler at gsi.de>
> Cc: rxvt-unicode at lists.schmorp.de
> Subject: Re: broadcast messages
> 
> On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 11:37:35PM +0100, Michael Traxler <M.Traxler at gsi.de> wrote:
>> But still I'm confused:
>> Why does urxvt needs the setgid utmp while xterm and the others don't need this
>> to enable the registration in utmp?
>
> Did you try +ut? If your utmp is (accidentally) world-writable you wouldn't
> need setgid utmp.
>
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