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authorNalin Dahyabhai <nalin@src.gnome.org>2002-09-24 19:24:28 +0000
committerNalin Dahyabhai <nalin@src.gnome.org>2002-09-24 19:24:28 +0000
commit5c90999a83b372436ab94d7b0d5f4cd1cc942360 (patch)
treecaea6452381499de95786a64995afdcc9f6f5d1b
parent0da7298172a95ccdcafa8c84d4b53a28b03c2aae (diff)
downloadvte-5c90999a83b372436ab94d7b0d5f4cd1cc942360.tar.gz
Doc fixups (mention gnome-terminal instead of profterm, note the proper
* README, gnome-pty-helper/README: Doc fixups (mention gnome-terminal instead of profterm, note the proper permissions for gnome-pty-helper, #84505).
-rw-r--r--ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--README2
-rw-r--r--gnome-pty-helper/README6
3 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 03712345..485e1653 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+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.
diff --git a/README b/README
index b7fa1480..17eea5ec 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
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,
diff --git a/gnome-pty-helper/README b/gnome-pty-helper/README
index f1451d6e..a78b57e9 100644
--- a/gnome-pty-helper/README
+++ b/gnome-pty-helper/README
@@ -2,3 +2,9 @@ This is some bits from libzvt CVS extracted to make a more-or-less standalone
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".