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authorAlan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@sun.com>2006-11-07 18:27:45 -0800
committerAlan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@sun.com>2006-11-07 18:27:45 -0800
commit63f21c67aa6d025d8fa06793dc7f83f37e7c3fb4 (patch)
treec8085e4ddd8fcc57b5d7ebaeb86b968ad3e50c88 /sessreg.man
parent98a651ec2ac289b966e0a09557e81b33e202ee9c (diff)
Substitute correct pathnames for utmp/wtmp files in man pages
ifdefs to find the paths on each platform have been broken out into a new sessreg.h header that is also preprocessed into sed rules applied to the man page. Old ifdefs left for Imake compatibility in the 6.9/7.0 hybrid release have been dropped now that autoconf is required to build.
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diff --git a/sessreg.man b/sessreg.man
index cd2e80f..b288f13 100644
--- a/sessreg.man
+++ b/sessreg.man
@@ -45,18 +45,18 @@ sessreg \- manage utmp/wtmp entries for non-init clients
\fISessreg\fP is a simple program for managing utmp/wtmp
entries for xdm sessions.
.PP
-System V has a better interface to /etc/utmp than BSD; it
+System V has a better interface to utmp than BSD; it
dynamically allocates entries in the file, instead of writing them at fixed
-positions indexed by position in /etc/ttys.
+positions indexed by position in __ttys_file__.
.PP
To manage BSD-style utmp files, \fIsessreg\fP has two strategies. In
-conjunction with xdm, the -x option counts the number of lines in /etc/ttys
+conjunction with xdm, the -x option counts the number of lines in __ttys_file__
and then adds to that the number of the line in the Xservers file which
specifies the display. The display name must be specified as the
"line-name" using the -l option. This sum is used as the "slot-number" in
-/etc/utmp that this entry will be written at. In the more general case, the
--s option specifies the slot-number directly. If for some strange reason
-your system uses a file other that /etc/ttys to manage init, the -t option
+the utmp file that this entry will be written at. In the more general case,
+the -s option specifies the slot-number directly. If for some strange reason
+your system uses a file other that __ttys_file__ to manage init, the -t option
can direct
\fIsessreg\fP to look elsewhere for a count of terminal sessions.
.PP
@@ -83,12 +83,11 @@ and in Xreset:
.fi
.SH OPTIONS
.IP "\fB-w\fP \fIwtmp-file\fP"
-This specifies an alternate wtmp file, instead of /usr/adm/wtmp for BSD or
-/etc/wtmp for sysV. The special name "none" disables writing records to
-/usr/adm/wtmp.
+This specifies an alternate wtmp file, instead of __wtmp_file__.
+The special name "none" disables writing records to the wtmp file.
.IP "\fB-u\fP \fIutmp-file\fP"
-This specifies an alternate utmp file, instead of "/etc/utmp". The special
-name "none" disables writing records to /etc/utmp.
+This specifies an alternate utmp file, instead of __utmp_file__.
+The special name "none" disables writing records to the utmp file.
.IP "\fB-l\fP \fIline-name\fP"
This describes the "line" name of the entry. For terminal sessions,
this is the final pathname segment of the terminal device filename
@@ -101,7 +100,7 @@ This is set for BSD hosts to indicate that the session was initiated from
a remote host. In typical xdm usage, this options is not used.
.IP "\fB-s\fP \fIslot-number\fP"
Each potential session has a unique slot number in BSD systems, most are
-identified by the position of the \fIline-name\fP in the /etc/ttys file.
+identified by the position of the \fIline-name\fP in the __ttys_file__ file.
This option overrides the default position determined with ttyslot(3).
This option is inappropriate for use with xdm, the -x option is more useful.
.IP "\fB-x\fP \fIXservers-file\fP"