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From: steveg@ni.umd.edu (Steve Green)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: More strangeness with talk
Message-ID: <1990Nov16.152305.26339@ni.umd.edu>
Date: 16 Nov 90 15:23:05 GMT
References: <1990Nov16.040912.16092@panix.uucp>
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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In article <1990Nov16.040912.16092@panix.uucp> alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen) writes:
>For reasons unrelated to the problem with talk, we rebooted the system.
>[...]
>Unfortunately, talk is _still_ not working. I don't know why. It now starts
>up and says something about checking for invitations on _caller's_ host.
>[...]

Try removing /etc/utmp and re-logging in.  I had/have similiar problems
and that always seems to do it.  From what I can tell, talk{d} uses utmp
to figure out what tty you are on and if its munged, well, you know.

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