I have solved the problem - in case anyone is wondering.
My /etc/ttys was empty (experimenting on my behalf).
What I'd like to know is why would this occur???

>For some reason when I do a 'who' it doesn't respond with anything.
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>The utmp file seems to always be empty. What is up? Any ideas?
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>/home/anthony> ls -l /var/run/utmp
>-rw-rw-r--  1 root  utmp  0 Jun  5 20:12 /var/run/utmp=09
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