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From: drears@ardec.arpa (Dennis G. Rears (FSAC))
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re:  script & lock
Message-ID: <17992@adm.BRL.MIL>
Date: 30 Dec 88 20:35:13 GMT
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   I like to thank everyone who responded to this.  The problem was
that getlogin() was returning NULL and I wasn't checking for it.  When 
script runs it open /dev/ptyX as a tty which of course isn't in utmp.
I have taken the advice to use it based upon uid.

Dennis