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From: malc <av1474@comtv.ru>
To: Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>
Cc: "\"Ricardo Catalinas Jiménez\"" <jimenezrick@gmail.com>,
	caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Unix.getlogin () fails when stdin is redirected
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:59:54 +0400 (MSK)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1203212159050.1520@linmac> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21e18417ea60387375a493c44907735e.squirrel@gps.dynxs.de>

On Wed, 21 Mar 2012, Gerd Stolpmann wrote:

> 
> > On Tue, 20 Mar 2012, Ricardo Catalinas Jim?nez wrote:
> >
> >> I found out the next issue in this simple code:
> >>
> >> let () =
> >>     print_endline "Hello";
> >>     print_endline (Unix.getlogin ())
> >>
> >> Running in the normal case, with `./a.out' gives:
> >
> > FWIW on my machine (linux) calling getlogin from any PTY always fails
> > (be it screen or some sort of X terminal)
> 
> I guess /var/run/utmp is not world-readable - which is a perfectly
> reasonable configuration, and means that you disabled getlogin
> administratively.
> 
> Does "last -f /var/run/utmp" give an output?

Yep

~$ last -f /var/run/utmp 
malc     tty1                          Wed Mar 21 21:57   still logged in   
reboot   system boot                   Wed Mar 21 21:57          (00:01)    

utmp begins Wed Mar 21 21:57:23 2012
~$ ls -l /var/run/utmp 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3840 2012-03-21 21:57 /var/run/utmp

[..snip..]

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      reply	other threads:[~2012-03-21 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-20 17:51 Ricardo Catalinas Jiménez
2012-03-20 18:07 ` [Caml-list] " Ricardo Catalinas Jiménez
2012-03-20 18:28   ` David House
2012-03-20 18:48     ` Till Varoquaux
2012-03-20 19:41       ` Yaron Minsky
2012-03-20 20:12         ` Till Varoquaux
2012-03-20 22:45           ` oliver
2012-03-21 12:26             ` Török Edwin
2012-03-21  2:17 ` [Caml-list] " malc
2012-03-21 11:29   ` Gerd Stolpmann
2012-03-21 17:59     ` malc [this message]

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