Stupid question

Matthew Seaman m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk
Fri Mar 28 11:09:24 PST 2003


On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 11:17:10AM -0500, Gerard Samuel wrote:
> How does one send a message to another logged in user on the same box 
> via the command line??

    write(1)
    talk(1) --- if you have the talk service enabled in /etc/inetd.conf

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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