Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!ukma!cbosgd!mandrill!hal!oxtrap!rich
From: rich@oxtrap.UUCP (K. Richard Magill)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: quiz
Message-ID: <2600@oxtrap.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jan 88 01:00:02 GMT
References: <2635@pbhyf.UUCP> <333@manta.UUCP> <367@pcbox.UUCP>
Reply-To: rich@oxtrap.UUCP (K. Richard Magill)
Organization: Oxford, Ann Arbor
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In article <367@pcbox.UUCP> pjc@pcbox.UUCP (Paul J. Condie) writes:
>In article <333@manta.UUCP> brant@manta.UUCP (Brant Cheikes) writes:
>>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
>No I'm not using multiple gettys.
>Some time during the night the problem disapeared.  

Sounds to me like your /etc/utmp or /usr/adm/wtmp was truncated or
trashed while you were logged in.  (it happens).









rich.