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  1. Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!ukma!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!spool.mu.edu!teknetix!hiren
  3. From: hiren@teknetix.com(Hiren Shah)
  4. Subject: Who are you?  You have no entry in /etc/utmp!  Aborting...
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov05.174010.18485@teknetix.com>
  6. Sender: hiren@mtu.edu (Hiren Shah)
  7. Organization: Technetix
  8. Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 17:40:10 GMT
  9. Lines: 24
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  11. Hello:
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  13. Sometime back the talk command stopped working:
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  15. It comes back with the following msg:
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  17. Who are you?  You have no entry in /etc/utmp!  Aborting...
  18.  
  19. the file /etc/utmp is a data file.
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  21. Any ideas as to what may be broken and/or how can it be fixed.
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  23. Any help would be appreciated.
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  25. Thanks
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  27. Hiren
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  29. Please mail to:
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  31. hiren@teknetix.com
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