On Tuesday, January 15, 2013, G. Matthew Rice <m...@starnix.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:43 AM, dbclinton <dbc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Here's another possible anachronism that struck me: >> 101.3 >> Candidates should be able to alert users before switching run level and >> properly terminate processes >> >> As far as I can see, command line cowboys don't usually ride in packs any >> more; they are either working all alone or serving GUI clients. But in >> either case, wall messages aren't in the least bit effective. Should this >> still be an objective - or should it be changed to encourage some other >> messaging system? > > I think that everyone would agree that the entire objective needs to > be reworked. We did add the start of systemd to the objective and, I > expect that by the time we revisit LPIC-1 objectives, things will have > settled down a little. > > but...there are quite a few systems that I access which could have > others logged in. Checking for them and warning them somehow is a > nice thing to do. what other messaging system would you suggest? I'm > guessing not write(1) or talk(1). > > Regards, > -- > G. Matthew Rice <mr...@lpi.org> gpg id: EF9AAD20 > _______________________________________________ > lpi-examdev mailing list > lpi-examdev@lpi.org > http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev >
MultiSeat Linux will become more popular. MultiSeat admins need `wall` to be updated to also send to graphical displays. Keep it in.
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