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| Started by | Ben Wong <ben@wongs.net> |
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| First post | 2024-12-05 07:10 +0100 |
| Last post | 2024-12-05 10:50 +0100 |
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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
| From | Ben Wong <ben@wongs.net> |
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| Date | 2024-12-05 07:10 +0100 |
| Subject | How to send a message to a user logged in over ssh |
| Message-ID | <JQddL-dQZ4-7@gated-at.bofh.it> |
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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
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| From | didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2024-12-05 10:20 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <JQgbE-dSWQ-13@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #275265 |
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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| From | Will Mengarini <seldon@eskimo.com> |
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| Date | 2024-12-05 10:50 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <JQgEG-dT6x-3@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #275267 |
* didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> [24-12/05=Th 10:11 +0100]: > 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 But bsdextrautils doesn't have 'wall' or 'mesg'. I've found sleep $duration && wall Turn on radio to be useful on a new machine that doesn't have sound working yet. It's a bad idea to remove a standard utility just because maintainers can't imagine why it's useful. As in this case, that is likely to be a failure of imagination; security is irrelevant to one-line reminders on a single machine. I've also found 'talk' useful.
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