Re: UNIX question

Posted in 1998

Christof Koeberlein — Wed, 18 Mar 1998 20:55:45 +0100 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Steve Romankiw schrieb in Nachricht <6emjsg$86j$1@news.xmission.com>... > >As root, you can send messages to the console by typing "echo hello > >/dev/console". >When I try this as any user besides root, I get a message similar to >"/dev/console: cannot create". I think any used (active) terminals in /dev are getting automaticaly other Permissions, so nobody else but the User who is active at this terminal can write to it... (nobody but root...) why don't you use the send-command? or the wall-command (attention, in normal only for root) Christof Koeberlein (koebi@rz-online.de)