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

From	Ben Wong <ben@wongs.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	How to send a message to a user logged in over ssh
Date	2024-12-05 07:10 +0100
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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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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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