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write/writed for linux, also weirdness on quiche

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel J. Thumim)
Fri Jan 28 02:37:00 1994

To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 02:36:53 -0500
From: "Daniel J. Thumim" <dthumim@MIT.EDU>

I copied /usr/athena/bin/write from quiche to my system, and it works.
I copied /usr/athena/etc/writed, copied the "write" line from quiche's
/etc/inetd.conf into mine, made sure the right line was in /etc/services,
restarted inetd, and when someone tries to write to my machine the write
command just returns, no errors or anything.  Netstat -a reports that
something is listening on the write port.

Now this:

~% hostname
quiche-lorraine
~% whoami
dthumim
~% tty
/dev/ttyp1
~% finger
No one logged on.
~% uptime
  2:34am  up  4:07,  0 users,  load average: 0.05, 0.46, 0.30
~% w
  2:34am  up  4:07,  0 users,  load average: 0.05, 0.46, 0.30
User     tty       login@  idle   JCPU   PCPU  what
~% who
~% ls -l /etc/utmp
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root          784 Jan 28 02:06 /etc/utmp
~% last | head -3
nygren   ttyp2        Fri Jan 28 02:05 - 02:06  (00:00)
nygren   ttyp2        Fri Jan 28 01:36 - 01:40  (00:04)
dthumim  ttyp1        Fri Jan 28 01:20 - 02:34 (still logged in)

Something strange is going on, I don't know what.  On my linux system,
I do have utmp problems, but not of this nature... I have xterm screwing
up my utmp by putting bogus values for the from host and leaving entries
around after exiting, but it never deletes existing entries.

					-- |)an

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