On 15/10/2026 20:35, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Thu, Oct 15, 2026 at 09:01:29 +0200, Steffen Wurm wrote:
There is even a service, that seems to be responsible for those messages, but
that does not seem to be helping.
----- trixie -----
# systemctl status systemd-ask-password-wall.service
● systemd-ask-password-wall.service - Forward Password Requests to Wall
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-ask-password-wall.service;
static)
Active: active (running) since Thu 2026-10-15 07:11:06 CEST; 28min ago
[...]
Does the wall(1) command work for you? It doesn't for me, and this
is probably related to the discontinuation of the utmp/wtmp files
in Trixie.
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/release-notes/issues.en.html#the-last-lastb-and-lastlog-commands-have-been-replaced
At least, that's my guess.
On Trixie, this command in a terminal emulator on TTY7:
sudo wall "Test Message"
results in the message being displayed on TTY2 - if I am already logged in
there.
There are no other users on this machine to test.
I have wtmpdb installed, but not lastlog2
--
John
