Does any one know what package commands like "wall" and "write" would be in? The seem like basic commands that should be somewhere, but I've searched for everything I could think of with tazpkg.
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Does anyone know of a package that is available that will allow me to write a message to other users that are logged into a tty?
You can visit http://pkgs.slitaz.org then select "file", type in filename, select version and search in which packages this filename pattern exists. I don't know, maybe it 'irssi'?
It doesn't seem to be availaible at the moment. File a bug/feature request over at http://labs.slitaz.org for it to be packaged. Hopefully someone will pick it up!
Looks like it should be part of the "util-linux-ng" package which is already installed, but write and wall seem to have been left out. I just downloaded the source code and I'll try to compile it. I'll let you guys know if I get anywhere.
I haven't compiled the program, but I wrote my own script to replace wall (At least for what I need to get done).
It's pretty short, only one line.
[code] #!/bin/sh
for i in /dev/tty*;do echo "$@" > $i ;done
[/code]
I created a file "/usr/bin/wall" and put that script in it. Made it executable (chmod +x /usr/bin/wall). Now I just use it like so: $wall This is my message
It only works for root since, by default, normal users can't write to /dev/tty* But, it got the job done for what I need to do right now anyway. I'll still look into compiling write and wall if I have time.