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From: jeff@onion.pdx.com (Jeff Beadles)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: ps and wall; How do they work?
Message-ID: <1990Sep15.173201.26046@onion.pdx.com>
Date: 15 Sep 90 17:32:01 GMT
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In <13850@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
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>Any version of "wall" that writes on terminals that have had "mesg n"
>executed on them is BROKEN.  You can fix that by removing /bin/wall.
...

Unless wall is being run by root...

	-Jeff
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Jeff Beadles  jeff@onion.pdx.com