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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Unix `w' command not working
Message-ID: <1367@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 26 Feb 91 23:55:46 GMT
References: <91057.115121SLVQC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <91057.115121SLVQC@CUNYVM.BITNET> SLVQC@CUNYVM.BITNET
	(Salvatore Saieva) writes:
>I recently installed NeXTStep v2.0 and the Unix `w' command no
>longer works. (It used to work under v1.0.) Whenever I try to run
>w I get the message ``No namelist''. Does anyone know what this
>message means? Any ideas why it doesn't work?

w attempts to get a namelist from /mach--this is normally a
symbolic link to the $BOOTFILE metalink.  If you've booted
from od or sd you shouldn't have any problems (unless you
mucked with the system files).  If you've booted from en or
tp the metalink may be invalid--but since you had it working
under 1.0, I'm inclined to rule this out.

					-=EPS=-


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