[NBLUG/talk] System Message

[Walter Hansen]

Ahh, yes I see. I can't send a message back to root so the y is not set.
But the process sending the message runs as root so no big deal anyway.
Users will be setting up a temporary system change using a program and all
users online should be notified of the change.

> On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 11:47:55PM -0800, Robert Chow wrote:
>> For wall to work (in most *nix systems, anyway), I
>> believe that the user has to have mesg=y set.
>
> If root is sending the message, then the status of mesg does not matter.
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