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From: brant@manta.UUCP (Brant Cheikes)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: quiz
Message-ID: <333@manta.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 88 16:34:09 GMT
References: <2635@pbhyf.UUCP>
Reply-To: brant@manta.UUCP (Brant Cheikes)
Organization: Soul of the Gnu Machine, Philadelphia
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Posted: Fri Jan  8 10:34:09 1988

In article <2635@pbhyf.UUCP> pjc@pbhyf.UUCP (Paul Condie) writes that
the phone manager complains "You may not run the phone manager without
logging in" when he's logged in, and the mail icon never notifies him
of new mail.

Are you using multiple gettys?  If so, then I believe the problem is
that you're not logged in to the /dev/w1 window.  Apparently, smgr
(which controls the mail icon) and ph lookup the user on w1, and if
you're logged in on another window, they think no one's logged in. The
solution is to always log in to the first "login" window listed in the
wmgr menu.
-- 
Brant Cheikes
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Computer and Information Science
ARPA: brant@linc.cis.upenn.edu, UUCP: ...drexel!manta!brant