Re: Oh God! More helpful software :-).

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On Sat, Nov 7, 2020 at 10:22 PM Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> On 06Nov2020 21:50, Tom Horsley <horsley1953@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> For as long as I can remember I've run dnf update in a root
>> xterm and when all the akmod activity and wot-not is finished,
>> I've run reboot from another terminal.
>>
>> Now, it won't reboot "because root is logged in".
>>
>> Gah! Who cares if root is logged in?
>>
>> Can I disable this helpful feature any way?
>
> Dunno, but maybe you can disable what it measures. Do your xterms
> make entries in wtmp (listed by "w" and "who")? Is so, ISTR that
> xterm has an option to not do that (look for "wtmp" in the manual
> IIRC). See if disabling that helps.

"w" and "who" look at "/var/run/utmp".

"last" looks at "/var/log/wtmp".

You can use "xterm*utmpInhibit: true" in "~/.Xresources" to prevent
xterm from updating utmp. But it's hard to believe that this is what's
messing with the other Tom H's system. Maybe...
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