Package: bsdutils Version: 1.3-1 I got the following piece of mail from my regular backup script; it was trying to do a wall, and obviously found some utmp entries with '??' in the tty field.
I *think* this is probably a bug in bsdutils in that it tried to write to those terminals, but it might be considered a bug in telnet or rlogin or some other program which modifies utmp. Would the bsdutils maintainer care to investigate ? Ian. ------- start of forwarded message (RFC 934 encapsulation) ------- Return-Path: <root> Received: by chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk id m0tHN5O-0002XSC (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.35); Mon, 20 Nov 95 03:40 GMT Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root> From: root (Cron Daemon) To: root Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /usr/local/lib/backup/takedown Date: Mon, 20 Nov 95 03:40 GMT wall: /dev/tty??: No such file or directory wall: /dev/tty??: No such file or directory wall: /dev/tty??: No such file or directory wall: /dev/tty??: No such file or directory wall: /dev/tty??: No such file or directory ------- end -------