Has anyone else encountered problems with the 'msg' command on Windows 7
(64-bit enterprise) computers?
Typically, when there is 5 and 10 minutes remaining in a reservation, vcld
issues the following command:
msg {username} /TIME:180 '{message}'
and an alert box appears to inform the user to extend their reservation or
prepare to logout.
The command fails, however, with the following message:
bash: msg: command not found
The strange part of this, however, is that if I am logged into an active VCL
session over RDP, I can run that command just fine from the console. Likewise,
I can navigate to C:\Windows\System32 and see msg.exe listed, but if I start up
a Cygwin session (on the same computer), the file is simply not there:
ls /cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/msg.exe
And the response is:
ls: cannot access /cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/msg.exe: No such file or
directory
This does not affect WindowsXP images, and it also works fine on the 32-bit
versions of Windows7. Furthermore, I seem to recall that this used to work on
64-bit Windows7 images, but it certainly doesn't at present.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Aaron
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Aaron Coburn
Systems Administrator and Programmer
Academic Technology Services, Amherst College
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
