I've had the wall behavior before broadcasting to allusers work before on other distro's (slackware & redhat) but now on gentoo it seems to be locked down. talk works, but instead of "talk user" you need to specify "talk user@localhost" wall works, but you have to be root.
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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