Wall Command on Mint 13

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Galaxy119

Wall Command on Mint 13

Post by Galaxy119 »

I'm trying to use the simple wall command.
On knoppix/fedora I do:
wall
Text to display here.
Ctrl+D

and I get
"Broadcast message from josh@Amathorian (pts/2) (Fri Jan 18 05:22:20 2013):

Text to display here."
on every open terminal (even ones logged into ssh)
however on mint I get
"Broadcast message from josh@AmathorianMint (pts/1) (Fri Jan 18 05:22:20 2013):

Hello"

on only the terminal I issue the wall command on.

with 3 terminals open (one logged in through ssh) the "who" command results in:
Fedora:
josh :0 2013-01-17 07:19 (:0)
josh pts/1 2013-01-18 05:07 (:0,0)
josh pts/2 2013-01-18 05:09 (:0,0)
josh pts/3 2013-01-18 05:12 (192.168.0.13)
however with linux mint all i get is:
ken tty8 2013-01-17 07:41 (:0)
ken pts/1 2013-01-18 05:41 (:0,0)

with the same terminal setup as on the fedora (2 open on local machine and 1 on ssh)
I suspect this is the problem causing "wall" to only display on the terminal I put in the wall command on.
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viking777

Re: Wall Command on Mint 13

Post by viking777 »

Try this:

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echo "Hello World" | wall
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