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- From: mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us (Michael B. Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
- Subject: Re: utmp problems
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- Date: 30 Dec 92 06:27:51 EST
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- In article <1hrp76INN5ji@zikzak.apana.org.au> zik@zikzak.apana.org.au (Michael :
- > I'm running Amiga UNIX 2.1 on a system which is quite heavily loaded
- > with a number of users. I have continuous problems with the machine
- > getting confused between users. For instance "whoami" might show "zik"
- > but "logname" tells me "brumby", which is patently untrue.
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- > It's a real pain when you get a talk request from someone and when you
- > respond they get your talk request as if it came from someone else.
- >
- > Does anyone have a solution to these problems?
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- I don't have a solution, but I can tell you that it also happens on
- Esix 4.0.3. It is not an Amiga UNIX problem only....
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