Don't know specifically about gentoo, but try the 'write' or 'talk' command instead of 'wall', but that'll go only to speified users. Karl Hiramoto wrote:
Anyone know how to allow users other than root to wall messages to other logins?
wall "test" only displays to other users if doing it from root.
Do i need to be in a certain group?
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