Version: (using KDE KDE 3.2.0) Installed from: Gentoo Packages OS: Linux kwrited runs. If I write to /dev/pts/0, it opens with the stuff. However, it does not appear on 'w' or 'who' and does not receive messages from 'write' or 'wall'. Very similar to what is described in bug 44530. I do not think this has ever worked on my system (which has had KDE 3.1betas to 3.2.0 and Linux 2.4.18 to 2.6.1-gentoo-r1).
bash-2.05b$ w 22:41:27 up 23 min, 5 users, load average: 0.02, 0.01, 0.04 USER TTY LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT bangert :0 22:19 ?xdm? 43.27s 0.01s -:0 bangert pts/0 22:19 22:06 0.00s 0.12s kdeinit: kwrited bangert pts/1 22:41 10.00s 0.09s 0.09s /bin/bash bangert pts/2 22:41 2.00s 0.08s 0.08s /bin/bash bangert pts/3 22:41 0.00s 0.09s 0.00s w this is my output with three open konsole's in gentoo you need to emerge utempter bash-2.05b$ emerge -s utemp Searching... [ Results for search key : utemp ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * sys-apps/utempter [ Masked ] Latest version available: 0.5.3.2-r1 Latest version installed: 0.5.2 Size of downloaded files: 18 kB Homepage: http://www.redhat.com Description: App that allows non-privileged apps to write utmp (login) info, which needs root access License: MIT | LGPL-2 see also the corresponding bugs on bugs.gentoo.org... best regards bangert
This has been fixed at some point, but I do not recall utempter helping it.