utmp corruption

[Jim Diamond]

Occasionally the "who" command complains loudly about what it
finds in /etc/utmp.  In these cases the utmp file ends in text
such as the following:

Warning: You have your terminal set to "mesg -n".  No reply possible.
Warning: You have your terminal set to "mesg -n".  No reply possible.
Warning: You have your terminal set to "mesg -n".  No reply possible.
Warning: You have your terminal set to "mesg -n".  No reply possible.
Warning: You have your terminal set to "mesg -n".  No reply possible.

Now why do you suppose this message is going there?
Any thoughts, especially from you SGI types, before I bug you
via the hotline?

			Jim Diamond
			zsd at pig.drea.dnd.ca