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Re: weird talk problem?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Sat Feb 11 00:50:31 1995
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 1995 00:50:13 -0500
To: ericding@MIT.EDU
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
> once again, sorry for all the questions, and thank you for all the quick
> answers. OK, new mystery... when I do a talk request while logged in as
> ericding, it sends the following:
>
> Message from Talk_Daemon@hesed at 0:43 ...
> talk: connection requested by root@HESED.MIT.EDU.
> talk: respond with: talk root@HESED.MIT.EDU
This implies that your utmp file is somehow screwed up. You
might try logging out and logging in again. I take it this
is not under X (is this information correct?:
[quiche-lorraine!jhawk] ~> finger @hesed
[hesed.MIT.EDU]
Login Name Tty Idle Login Time Office Office Phone
ericding Eric J. Ding v0 - Feb 11 00:10 Cricket 11-115
root Charlie Root v1 - Feb 11 00:44
[quiche-lorraine!jhawk] ~> rusers -l hesed
ericding HESED.MIT.EDU:ttyv0 Feb 11 00:10
root HESED.MIT.EDU:ttyv1 Feb 11 00:44
[quiche-lorraine!jhawk] ~>
)
--jhawk
