On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Andrew Benton <b3n...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 19:58:16 +0800 > xinglp <xin...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> try 'write andy' > > andy:~$ write andy > write: andy is not logged in > andy:~$ > > That's if I do it in a roxterm window. If I close xorg and work at the > login prompt it says: > > andy:~$ write andy > write: you have write permission turned off > andy:~$ > > I should say that I've never used write before. Is this how it should be > working?
Yes. You can enable write permissions with mesg(1) command. Issue 'mesg y' to allow writing messages to yourself. Ilya. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
