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From: zsd@PIG.DREA.DND.CA (Jim Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: utmp corruption
Message-ID: <9106041621.AA12411@pig.drea.dnd.ca>
Date: 4 Jun 91 16:21:41 GMT
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Occasionally the "who" command complains loudly about what it
finds in /etc/utmp.  In these cases the utmp file ends in text
such as the following:

Warning: You have your terminal set to "mesg -n".  No reply possible.
Warning: You have your terminal set to "mesg -n".  No reply possible.
Warning: You have your terminal set to "mesg -n".  No reply possible.
Warning: You have your terminal set to "mesg -n".  No reply possible.
Warning: You have your terminal set to "mesg -n".  No reply possible.

Now why do you suppose this message is going there?
Any thoughts, especially from you SGI types, before I bug you
via the hotline?

			Jim Diamond
			zsd@pig.drea.dnd.ca