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From: alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: "no namelist"???
Message-ID: <1990Nov26.122438.18000@panix.uucp>
Date: 26 Nov 90 12:24:38 GMT
Organization: PANIX - Public Access Unix Systems of NY
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All of a sudden, for no particular reason, "w" and "lav" are giving me grief.
They both respond "no namelist" when I try to use them. If I su to root, w
works, but lav doesn't.

The man pages are singularly unhelpful, and the only file that w seems to
want is /etc/utmp, which is world-readable and writeable. Recreating utmp
as an empty file had no beneficial effect.

So, what's a namelist, and can I pick one up at the five & dime?
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Alexis Rosen
Owner/Sysadmin, PANIX Public Access Unix, NY
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