* README, gnome-pty-helper/README: Doc fixups (mention gnome-terminal instead
of profterm, note the proper permissions for gnome-pty-helper, #84505).
+2002-09-24 nalin
+ * README, gnome-pty-helper/README: Doc fixups (mention gnome-terminal
+ instead of profterm, note the proper permissions for gnome-pty-helper,
+ #84505).
+
2002-09-20 nalin
* src/ring.c: Fix a ring-buffer manipulation bug (Red Hat #74290) which
might cause a new item to be inserted in the wrong location.
in a GTK window. Because I'm more concerned with whether or not it works,
all settings are hard-coded to whatever I needed to test the last time I
touched it. If you actually want to use the widget to get work done, you
- should probably be using profterm.
+ should probably be using gnome-terminal.
* How does it work?
- The VTE library inserts terminal capability strings into a tree of tables,
gnome-pty-helper kit (except for the default installation directory being
hard-coded to ${libdir}/vte). Presumably it is licensed under the LGPL, as
libzvt itself is.
+
+Note that for utmp/wtmp/lastlog logging to work properly, you *must* ensure
+that gnome-pty-helper is installed with the correct permissions. By default,
+gnome-pty-helper is installed setgid "utmp". If your system does not have a
+group named "utmp" (or if this group does not have write access to the
+corresponding log files), then it will probably need to be made setuid "root".