Bug#1892: forwarded message from Cron Daemon

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

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.

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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: <m0tHN5O-0002XSC@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>
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 <root@chiark> /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
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