Bug 75403

Summary:	kwrited does not do anything
Product:	[Applications] konsole	Reporter:	Luke-Jr <luke-jr+kdebugs>
Component:	kwrited	Assignee:	Konsole Bugs <konsole-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Luke-Jr 2004-02-16 23:33:42 UTC

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).

Comment 1 Thilo Bangert 2004-04-23 22:44:09 UTC

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

Comment 2 Luke-Jr 2004-11-21 15:55:28 UTC

This has been fixed at some point, but I do not recall utempter helping it.