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From: tom@ICASE.EDU (Tom Crockett)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: A "fix" for wall.
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Date: 29 Mar 89 19:30:50 GMT
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> *Excerpts from xpert: 29-Mar-89 A "fix" for wall. Phil Dykstra@brl.mil (1719)*

> If you look > in Sun's /usr/include/utmp.h you find a define for nonuser()
> used to > determine if a pty entry in utmp corresponded to a "real" user or
> not > (i.e. someone who should get a wall message).

Can you achieve the same effect (i.e., avoiding unwanted "wall" messages) by
starting xterm with the -ut option to prevent it from writing a record in utmp?