Hi.

I'm running slackware 8.1 on my workstation. On every Linux distro i've used before 'uptime' has shown the users who are logged in to me. If i login via ssh this works... But if i login via gdm uptime tells me that 0 users are logged in, although i'm writing this text as a user now... So it should be 1 user. Is this normal or can sombody confirm this?

thx, s.

I just logged in via ssh into my box from work, uptime showed me 1 user logged in at the time I logged in.
If its telling you no users are logged in, what does who -q tell you ?? Just another way of seeing who is logged in.

If i start the sshd, and login via "ssh localhost", then uptime shows me that 1 user is logged in. But not if i login the normal way via kdm or gdm...

If i boot my box so that it shows me only a text login for the console, then uptime shows 1 user as well.

If its important:
I've put /usr/bin/gmd to /etc/rc.d/rc.local so that its started on bootup.

s.

"last" shows that my login should have been registered:

But i'm neither listed in uptime nor in "who -q" *argh*

s.

I am still running 8.0 on a workstation that the typical operation for me is using init level 4, specified in the /etc/inittab file. The authentication is through kdm, but it is not really the same thing as a real login from what I have been able to tell. Even "last" doesn't report my logins unless it is through the login prompt or ssh on my system. Back when I defaulted to init level 3 and logged into the system, and then ran startx when I wanted to run X windows, it reported everything correctly. The rc.local file, in your case that would include kdm or gdm, would execute upon boot and before any logins are attempted very similar to init level 4. The biggest difference I would think are the sysvinit scripts for level 4 would not be executed though and you probably still have all six getty's running from init level 3 instead of just one getty on console 6.

But I have always considered the kdm more like a getty for X and then the authentication is more simliar to a "su" command. That allows the user to operate without actually "logging" into the system through a normal login prompt.

The usual way to implement X is through the init system by setting the init level. Use 4 for Slack, most other distros use 5 I think, in the inittab file.

Hope it has been of some help.
James

So its not important for securiry (Although its annoying )?

s.

As best I can figure it the users information only keeps track of users loged into terminals on the computer. So if you hit CTRL-ALT-FX (X = 1-6) and log in, or log in via ssh or telnet or something like that, it will report you. However, if you log in through gdm or kdm you aren't really loging into a terminal per say and thus it doesn't keep track of you. I have always noticed they when I use the graphical login managers it doesn't report my user as being logged in, but you can always kill x if you are remoting into your machine and think somebody is messing with something in X.