HEADS UP: <utmp.h> gone. All welcome <utmpx.h>. - ports/sysutils/screen and ports/sysutils/tmux not showing sessions

Cy Schubert Cy.Schubert at komquats.com
Tue Feb 9 07:23:57 UTC 2010


In message <429af92e1002081805l629e04c6ub7b85b77a492e22c at mail.gmail.com>, 
Vince
nt Poy writes:
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> Hi Ed:
> 
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Ed Schouten <ed at 80386.nl> wrote:
> 
> >
> > * Vincent Poy <vincepoy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > It appears that after utmpx.h gone into effect, ports/sysutils/screen and
> > > ports/sysutils/tmux are not working correctly after a updated ports tree
> > and
> > > building/installing the ports.  What basically happens is the screen/tmux
> > > sessions which basically use tty's don't show up on the system in w, who,
> > > finger.
> >
> > I just rebuilt screen and doesn't seem to work indeed. The point is that
> > I wrote a perfectly fine patch for it and sent it to cy@, but he
> > committed a completely different version to the ports tree. You'd better
> > discuss this regression with him.
> >
> > My version did work:
> >
> > | (ed at dull) ~ $ tty
> > | /dev/pts/0
> > | (ed at dull) ~ $ w
> > |  9:02AM  up 5 days, 11:02, 1 user, load averages: 0.08, 0.08, 0.03
> > | USER       TTY      FROM                      LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
> > | ed         pts/0    mekker.80386.nl           9:02AM     - w
> > | (ed at dull) ~ $ screen
> > | (ed at dull) ~ $ tty
> > | /dev/pts/2
> > | (ed at dull) ~ $ w
> > |  9:03AM  up 5 days, 11:02, 1 user, load averages: 0.05, 0.08, 0.03
> > | USER       TTY      FROM                      LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
> > | ed         pts/2    mekker:S.0                9:03AM     - w
> 
> 
> Interesting, what's different between the patch you wrote vs the one
> cy at committed that's currently in the tree?  Sorry about the false tmux
> alarm, I
> thought tmux would still show logins on the pty's for the sessions as it's
> supposed to be similar to screen.

Sorry, I managed to lose the patch. Thank goodness for ZFS snapshots. It should be working now. Tested on 7, 8, and 9.


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Cheers,
Cy Schubert
<Cy.Schubert at komquats.com>




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