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i used "write" in my highschool to chat with other loged in people ... now i wonder why this is not possible in arch (no background knowledge on "write"-configuration --- i only know how to send messages to users logged in)
[damir@Asteraceae damir]$ write
write: you have write permission turned off.
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Try "mesg y" )
or "chmod +w /dev/tty???"
or "chmod +w /dev/pts???"
or what ever type of terminal you are using.
i used "write" in my highschool to chat with other loged in people ... now i wonder why this is not possible in arch (no background knowledge on "write"-configuration --- i only know how to send messages to users logged in)
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chmod +w /dev/tty
chmod +w /dev/pts
is run from /etc/rc.local, so there should be write-access
[damir@Asteraceae damir]$ mesg y
mesg: error: tty device is not owned by group `tty'
??? do i need a tty-group? why, when i want to allow all users to have write access to tty
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leave chmod alone a simple mesg y does the trick
remove the rc.local stuff u use and afther a clean boot run mesg y and see
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leave chmod alone a simple mesg y does the trick
remove the rc.local stuff u use and afther a clean boot run mesg y and see
removed the chmod, run
[damir@Asteraceae damir]$ mesg y
mesg: error: tty device is not owned by group `tty'
but as you can see this didnt help --- it looks like i should add a tty group and change something in /etc/devfs.conf ?
can someone give me the details what to do to get it working? do no person have tried to use "write" on a archlinux? thanx in advance
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thats not normal on arch simple mesg y does it but check the man page
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mesg y works for me.
/dev/tty is owned by root:root, is 666, and my user is a member of the root group.
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mesg y works for me.
/dev/tty is owned by root:root, is 666, and my user is a member of the root group.
i also have
[damir@Asteraceae damir]$ ls -l /dev/tty
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 5, 0 Jan 1 1970 /dev/tty
but my user is NOT a member of the root group --- why should this be a good idea? never made my users member of root ... is this a new "thing" i missed in the "linux-list-of-usefull-things"?
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It works for some things that are set up to have the root group modifying them, instead of just the root user (ex. reading log files). Not really useful for this purpose. Maybe you should try adding yourself to the tty group and chgrp'ing the device?
You'd think it would work because the device is world writeable... I can't help much more than this.
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