tty's under X
OK, I must have done something stupid to screw up my system, but ever
since I rebooted, I can no longer use biff, write, and other tty-based
utilities under X. Here's what happens:
chinook:~> tty
/dev/ttyp7
chinook:~> write maxk /dev/ttyp7
write: maxk is not logged in on ttyp7.
chinook:~> w
7:11pm up 35 min, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.04, 0.00
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
maxk tty1 7:04pm 6:18 10.24s 0.04s xinit /usr/X11R
Specifically, all of the xterms think they have their own ttyp's, but
they don't show up in utmp and the ownership on the ttyp's doesn't get
changed correctly. What's going on?
Max
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