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Re: How to send a message to a user logged in over ssh

From didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: How to send a message to a user logged in over ssh
Date 2024-12-05 10:20 +0100
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Le 05/12/2024 à 06:52, Ben Wong a écrit :
> Howdy!
> 
> On most (all?) current Unix systems I can use `write` to communicate 
> with users logged in over `ssh`. However, now that Debian is removing 
> `mesg` and `writed` from util-linux [1], I'm wondering what the 
> officially recommended replacement is. I mean, I suppose I could always 
> look up their phone number and call them, but that feels so 1970s… :-D
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ben
> 
>    [1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1088190 
> <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1088190>

Hello,

the bsdextrautils package implements a /usr/bin/write command

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How to send a message to a user logged in over ssh Ben Wong <ben@wongs.net> - 2024-12-05 07:10 +0100
  Re: How to send a message to a user logged in over ssh didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2024-12-05 10:20 +0100
    Re: How to send a message to a user logged in over ssh Will Mengarini <seldon@eskimo.com> - 2024-12-05 10:50 +0100

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