On Sat, 23 May 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote: > I connect to my Uni. trough ssh, and it is great!
Me too. > The only problem is that when I try to talk to someone I get:; > > Who are you? You have no entry in /etc/utmp! Aborting... This is a problem on the sun side according to my university. I have a script that executes a talk through another ssh connection, and this seems to work, but it's a bit slow to establish the talk. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:bhmit1$ more bin/mytalk #!/bin/sh ssh -t `hostname` talk $1 > BTW: When someone is using a program that takes the xterm screen I can't > talk to that person, is there a way to put a short message on that xterm > (or regular login screen)? The server is an ols SunOS. If they are as lazy as my school is about setting xhost and using xauth, you can just use xmessage to pop up a window. Brandon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
