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Conference turris::digital_unix

Title:DIGITAL UNIX(FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1)
Notice:Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference
Moderator:SMURF::DENHAM
Created:Thu Mar 16 1995
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:10068
Total number of notes:35879

9747.0. "Another little different "wall" problem !" by VAXRIO::63222::Manoel () Wed May 07 1997 19:06

 Hi, folks

        There is a customer with a DIGITAL Unix version 3.2c machine and
he has installed all patches from DUV32CAS00001-19961217.tar.
        Now the "wall" command has a odd behaviour.
        First, the wall command is always typed from a PC emulating terminal
via tcpip with a third party software.
        If you connect as root and issue a wall command only root receive it
correctly, other nonroot accounts don't, and there are some lines repeated
with the message "/dev/:is a directory" in the screen of the person that is
root and is trying to send the message.
        I you are logged in using a nonroot account, you won't receive the
message from root, but if you login to a root account and then issue login to
a nonroot account then you will receive the message.
        Can someone shed some light here ?
        Any help or pointer would be very appreciated.
        Thanks.

        
                                        Manoel F. Abreu Neto (MCS/DEC@Rio)

ps: Customer has installed system V environment.
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