Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mitel!sce!cognos!dy4!paul
From: paul@dy4.uucp (Paul Burry)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: A few questions on the SysV shl program
Message-ID: <148@dy4.UUCP>
Date: 21 Nov 89 19:10:33 GMT
References: <1989Nov14.145043.5428@investor.pgh.pa.us>
Reply-To: paul@dy4.UUCP (Paul Burry)
Organization: DY-4 Systems Inc. Nepean, Ont Can.
Lines: 38

In article <1989Nov14.145043.5428@investor.pgh.pa.us> rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305) writes:

>
>1.	Write doesn't work to a shl layer.  We have a number of programs
>to write to users and I would like to have them work when a user is in a
>shl layer.  Part of the problem is the who command shows sxt### instead
>of tty##, but even a "write user tty##" fails.
>

>-- 
>Bob Peirce, Pittsburgh, PA				  412-471-5320
>...!uunet!pitt!investor!rbp			rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us

I once worked around this bug in "write" by linking the special files
in /dev/sxt/ to special files in /dev/.  It seems that "write" 
didn't realize that the sxt??? devices recorded in /etc/utmp really 
refer to the special files /dev/sxt/???.

ie.
--------------------------- cut here -------------------------
:
cd /dev/sxt
for node in *
do
	ln $node /dev/sxt$node
done
--------------------------- cut here -------------------------

Hope this helps,
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Paul Burry 			PHONE:  (613)-596-9911
UUCP: ...!cognos!dy4!paul	POST:	Dy4 Systems Inc., 21 Fitzgerald Road,
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Paul Burry 			PHONE:  (613)-596-9911
UUCP: ...!cognos!dy4!paul	POST:	Dy4 Systems Inc., 21 Fitzgerald Road,
or    ...!cognos!dy4!seu13!paul	Nepean, Ontario, Canada K2H 9J4