Re: gnome-pty-helper needed?



On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, Oleg "__ka" Andreev wrote:

> Is gnome-pty-helper needed? As far as I could see, it's only purpose is
> to log which users use terminals. This gives nothing to desktop user and
> nearly nothing to administrator (he will anyways look at ps uax output
> if he *really* wants to know how many terminals did some specific user
> open).

As you said yourself, it "log"s.  Means that you can later see it
using last(1).  ps aux doesn't do that AFAIK.  So, yes, the admin
can use that.


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