Re: wall linux command not working?
Chris Jones <[email protected]>
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On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 07:16:08PM EST, Vladimir Todorov wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Today I had the need to broadcast a message to all logged in users. > I tried the `wall` command and it worked fine. But if the user is > using screen the message is not displayed. In other words if you are > working inside a screen session then you won't see any messages sent > with the `wall` command. Can someone more familiar help me out with > this? I am using Screen version 4.00.03jw4 (FAU) 2-May-06 Also I found > the 'wall' screen command but it shows the messages in the hard-status > line and they disappear after a while. Is there a way that I can send > the messages to the virtual terminals in screen instead of the > hard-status line? Works here.. If you wall your users as root or if the wall program is setuid/gid root, I can't see any reason it shouldn't work. I'm on debian 5.0 aka ‘lenny’ and the wall program is sgid root. Were you trying to tell your users they should go home & celebrate the New Year...? CJ _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users