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- From: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
- Subject: Re: Having Problems with talk/talkd
- Nntp-Posting-Host: draco.acs.uci.edu
- Message-ID: <2AA3F280.22940@orion.oac.uci.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Organization: University of California, Irvine
- Keywords: talk, talkd
- Lines: 16
- Date: 1 Sep 92 22:45:21 GMT
- Distribution: usa
- References: <67431@hydra.gatech.EDU>
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- In article <67431@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt2847c@prism.gatech.EDU (The Commander) writes:
- >I have a strange problem with the talk program....
- >If anyone but root requests talk (i.e. talk xxxxx@yyyy) it
- >replies "You don't exist. Go away." Has anyone seen anything
- >like this???? I thought it was amusing at first, but it has
- >become quite a nuisance as of late. If anyone has any ideas,
- >I would be most appreciative.
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- That message is printed when talk can't find you in the utmp file
- via the getlogin() call (according to the 4.3bsd sources).
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