* On 2005-10-13 at 12:16 BST, Martti Kuparinen wrote:

> Don't you have whoami at all? Is /usr/ucb on your PATH?

It explicitly isn't as it completely breaks a whole bunch of other
stuff.  I don't recall exactly what the problem was, but it's related
to linking against /usr/ucblib things in preference to others.

Since then (~4 years ago) I have never used /usr/ucb.

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