Re: echo message to users screen

[Mike Egglestone <megglestone@heritage.sd57.bc.ca>]

Hi,
I wanted the write.
We have lots of servers with lots of techs.
Some of them are very new to Debian.
So, when were working on systems its nice to chat.
We use the "talk" program as you mentioned.
but as root is defaulted to mesg n then its nice
to echo a message to their screen to say something like:
"hey turn you mesg n to mesg y so you can talk with me"
or something like that.

Mike

Quoting Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com>:
> 
> Do you want to say something to them or do you want them to be able to
> respond?  All require that the user has not denied you access to be
> able to do this or you must be root.  Write is a one way thing.  If
> you wait they can write back.  Talk is a formalization of this.  You
> 'talk them and their terminal will "ring" with a request from talk.
> They can respond to the ring with a 'talk you' and then you can type
> converse.
> 
>   write user
>   talk user | talk user@host
>   mesg n | mesg y
> 
> Bob
> 




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