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How to send a message to a user logged in over ssh



Howdy!

On most (all?) current Unix systems I can use `write` to communicate with users logged in over `ssh`. However, now that Debian is removing `mesg` and `writed` from util-linux [1], I'm wondering what the officially recommended replacement is. I mean, I suppose I could always look up their phone number and call them, but that feels so 1970s… :-D

Thanks,

Ben

  [1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1088190

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