Hello Sun managers !,
There was a problem with talk ..
(Who are you? You have no entry in /etc/utmp! Aborting... ) if you remember.
I had written in my SUMMARY that the problem had dissappeared by itself !
But this is not true.
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The problem was that the file : '/etc/ttytab' had not the right modes (644).
It was 600.
I had accidentally repaired the modes so I had thought that the problem had
dissapeared by itself.
But the "pointer" to think like that was a letter from
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>>>>>tony@edm.isac.ca (Tony Schiebel)<<<<<
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Here is his letter :
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I have had this problem on a 4/490 running 4.1.1. What I did to
diagnose this problem was run the following command:
trace -o junk.txt talk <username>
Where <username> is the user you are requesting a talk with. You can
then look at the output file called "junk.txt" in the current working
directory (make sure you have write privileges!). What I found when I
ran it was that the "/etc/ttytab" had incorrect permissions on the file.
Make sure that "world" has read access to the file.
I hope this works for you.
If you require more information please don't hesitate to e-mail me at
the below address.
Cheers
Tony
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WELL,
I run the following command: trace -o <filename> talk <username>
Here is the <filename>:
(I am only writing the interesting part of it)
...
...
...
stat ("/dev/ttyp2", 0xf7fffb90) = 0
close (3) = 0
open ("/etc/ttytab", 0, 0666) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
open ("/etc/ttytab", 0, 0666) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
ioctl (1, 0x40125401, 0xf7fff19c) = 0
write (1, "Who are you? You have no entry ".., 59) = 59
close (0) = 0
close (1) = 0
close (2) = 0
exit (-1) = ?
THAT'S IT !!!.
I have to thank everyone who responded to my problem.
Kostas Marneris (kmar@leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr)
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