From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 25 19:21:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from starbug.ugh.net.au (starbug.ugh.net.au [203.31.238.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C297937B55A for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 19:21:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@ugh.net.au) Received: by starbug.ugh.net.au (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9F774A839; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 12:21:26 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by starbug.ugh.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D640540E; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 12:21:26 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 12:21:26 +1000 (EST) From: andrew@ugh.net.au To: noor@comrax.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var/run/utmp In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-WonK: *wibble* MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 noor@comrax.com wrote: > /var/run/utmp cannot be opened. Please "unset watch". I assume they are using tcsh? watch tells tcsh to monitor people logging in and out of the sytem so that it can print "joe has just logged in on ttyp4". You presumably dont want to allow this but the error message you ar egetting is no worse than what they will be getting when they run who. If you dont want the error message I suggest you take its advice and un set (or not set) watch. Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message