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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!uwm.edu!ogicse!plains!plains.NoDak.edu!tinguely
  2. From: tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu (Mark Tinguely)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
  4. Subject: Re: (386BSD) finger
  5. Message-ID: <19854@plains.NoDak.edu>
  6. Date: 24 Aug 92 03:13:12 GMT
  7. Article-I.D.: plains.19854
  8. References: <AeZf8Pi00WB3EqYkQj@andrew.cmu.edu> <1992Aug23.150825.15374@NeoSoft.com>
  9. Sender: Unknown@plains.NoDak.edu
  10. Organization: North Dakota State University
  11. Lines: 10
  12. Nntp-Posting-Host: plains.nodak.edu
  13.  
  14. >In article <AeZf8Pi00WB3EqYkQj@andrew.cmu.edu> Tao Jiang <tj2n+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
  15. >>I had a problem in using finger (or users etc.) command in X386.
  16. >>Whenever I execute finger, it says that: No one logged on. But
  17.  [some deleted]
  18. >  Consequently anything that looks at /etc/utmp, including ttyname(3),
  19. >won't find your session.
  20.  
  21.  utmp has been move but the change was not compiled into X386. Soft link
  22.  /etc/utmp to /var/run/utmp (for  `w' `who' `f').
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