Tim,
The owner is root and the group is tty . However, my problem is the following.
When I check mesg in a terminal I get this:
john@debian:~$ mesgis yjohn@debian:~$
However, from another terminal (as root) I get this:
root@debian:/home/john# write johnwrite: john has messages
disabledroot@debian:/home/john#
How can it say 'mesg is y' and yet say that messages are disabled ? I think I
need to contact the Debian usersforum. It's a bit too strange for me.
And what is strange is that when I have the NUT-Monitor running, wall appears
to work. It may well be somekind of permissions issue. I will take it up with
the Debian forum before I try changing the permissions.
John
"Science is organized common sense. Philosophy is organized piffle"
-attributed to Bertrand Russel
From: Tim Dawson <[email protected]>
To: john hart <[email protected]>; NUT Developers
<[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 9:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Nut-upsdev] Good news
ls -lia /<path>/wall will give you the owner and group . . . .
Messages off . . . I think you are on the path . . . .
-Tim
On July 15, 2015 10:00:51 PM CDT, john hart <[email protected]> wrote:
Time, not sure who owner is, but I've tried as both admin and myself, to no
avail. However, I told you that mesg is y, buti tried to send a mesg using '
write ' and it says I have messages disabled. ????? I did that by opening
two terminals, on I logged in as ' su ', and sent the message from there. Is
that peculiar? Might account for why I am notgetting anything from ' wall ' .
John "Science is organized common sense. Philosophy is organized piffle"
-attributed to Bertrand Russel
From: Tim Dawson <[email protected]>
To: john hart <[email protected]>; NUT Developers
<[email protected]>! ;
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 8:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Nut-upsdev] Good news
Who is the owner and group for wall? Note that it is set group ID to allow it
to write to sessions . . . thus, that owner needs to be a system account that
can write to devices, not just Joe-Bob . . . You might also try 'strace wall'
to see what it is trying to do.
- Tim
On July 15, 2015 9:48:32 PM CDT, john hart <[email protected]> wrote:
Tim,
Thanks for the feedback. I am the only user (standalone system), but I checked
'mesg' and made sure it was set to 'mesg y' . And the execute permissions for
wall are rwxr-sr-x and the filename is has a kind of orange
highlightedbackground. Don't know what that means.!
John "Science is organized common sense. Philosophy is organized piffle"
-attributed to Bertrand Russel
From: Tim Dawson<[email protected]>
To: john hart <[email protected]>; NUT Developers
<[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 7:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Nut-upsdev] Good news
Any chance someone put 'mesg n' in the system profiles? That wou;d suppress
wall output. Try typing just 'mesg' and see what it says . . . otherwise, check
permissions ! on wallperhaps . . .
- Tim
On July 15, 2015 7:43:38 PM CDT, john hart <[email protected]> wrote:
Tried 'echo hi | wall' and no message. I looked at 'wall -h' and it would seem
that it is supposed to. I eventried ' wall [<filename> | <message>] ' and
got nothing. Not sure what that means, as when using theNUT-Monitor program I
get banners and a 'message' on the system try. Strange !
John "Science is organized common sense. Philosophy is organized piffle"
-attributed to Bertrand Russel
From: Charles Lepple <[email protected]>
To: john hart <[email protected]>
Cc: NUT Developers <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: Good news
On Jul 15, 2015, at 12:38 PM, john hart <[email protected]> wrote:
> So, the system shut down and turned off the UPS, which is exactly what ! I
> wouldhave expected. Also, when I
> reconnected the AC power the system did NOT automatically start up, which
> again is what I would have wanted,
> and hoped for.
Good to hear!
> So, in conclusion, NUT appears to be working correctly. Just wish I new why
> I wasn't getting messages. But I
> can live with the way it is. Thanks for all your help and a big thank you to
> the developers.
Not sure if you mentioned, but if you run something like "echo hi | wall", does
it broadcast a message? If not, I'd say that's a bug in wall, but you could
configure upsmon to run a different program to send a message.
!
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