More strangeness with talk

[Steve Green]

In article <1990Nov16.040912.16092 at panix.uucp> alexis at panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen) writes:
>For reasons unrelated to the problem with talk, we rebooted the system.
>[...]
>Unfortunately, talk is _still_ not working. I don't know why. It now starts
>up and says something about checking for invitations on _caller's_ host.
>[...]

Try removing /etc/utmp and re-logging in.  I had/have similiar problems
and that always seems to do it.  From what I can tell, talk{d} uses utmp
to figure out what tty you are on and if its munged, well, you know.

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