hedstrom@uvicctr.UVic.ca.UUCP (Brad Hedstrom) (10/19/89)
Every time I try to use talk when under uw, I get "No entry in /etc/utmp".
When someone tries to talk to me, they are told that my messages are turned
off (which they aren't). Evidentally, UW is not properly entering the
pseudo-ttys into /etc/utmp. I've remade UW twice following the instructions in
the Makefile that apply to the /etc/utmp issue. No luck. /ets/utmp is world
read/writable at our installation.
Has anyone else experienced this problem? Does anyone know how to fix this
problem? We're running SunOS 4.0.3.
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Brad Hedstrom, University of Victoria, ECE Dept.
Internet: hedstrom@sirius.uvic.ca
UUCP: ...!{uw-beaver,ubc-vision}!uvicctr!hedstromenglandr@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Scott Louis Englander) (10/25/89)
In article <818@uvicctr.UVic.ca.UUCP> hedstrom@uvicctr.UVic.ca.UUCP (Brad Hedstrom) writes: >Every time I try to use talk when under uw, I get "No entry in /etc/utmp". >When someone tries to talk to me, they are told that my messages are turned >off (which they aren't). Evidentally, UW is not properly entering the What you need to do is: uwtool talk <userid> This will open a separate window (_without_ its own csh) for talk, which will close upon termination of the process. -- - Scott
jellinghaus-robert@CS.YALE.EDU (Rob Jellinghaus) (10/26/89)
In article <11071@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> englandr@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Scott Englander) writes: >In article <818@uvicctr.UVic.ca.UUCP> hedstrom@uvicctr.UVic.ca.UUCP (Brad Hedstrom) writes: >What you need to do is: > >uwtool talk <userid> > >This will open a separate window (_without_ its own csh) for talk, which >will close upon termination of the process. That's all very well, but my problem is different. When I try to use talk under uw, it says "You don't exist. Go away." It does this even if I do "uwtool talk <userid>"; it simply puts up a window for a fraction of a second with this message in it, and then the window disappears again. Any clues on _this_ one? > - Scott Thanks for any assistance! Rob Jellinghaus | "Next time you see a lie being spread or a jellinghaus-robert@CS.Yale.EDU | bad decision being made out of sheer ignor- ROBERTJ@{yalecs,yalevm}.BITNET | ance, pause, and think of hypertext." {everyone}!decvax!yale!robertj | -- K. Eric Drexler, _Engines of Creation_