Quoting alviN ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> im forwarding this to the experts list, no ones
> answering me at the newbie list.
It may or may not be comforting to you to hear that you've posted a
problem that lacks an obvious solution (to me, anyway). On my own
system, I did exactly what you did (set "mesg y" for my regular,
non-root user, then use "write rick" to send a console message to
myself), except that in my case, it worked.
"write" sends messages to the pseudo-tty devices /dev/ttyp*, which
should have ownership and permissions like this:
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 3, 0 Nov 30 2000 /dev/ttyp0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 3, 1 Nov 30 2000 /dev/ttyp1
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 3, 2 Nov 30 2000 /dev/ttyp2
[...]
And, of course, /usr/bin/write must have appropriate permissions and
ownership, itself:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -al /usr/bin/write
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root tty 7400 Oct 24 16:36 /usr/bin/write
I'm not suggesting that you altered those things: There's no reason why
you would have. But you might want to check them, anyway.
Also, just as a sanity check, see if you get the right return value from
the "mesg" command after setting the value to "y":
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mesg
is y
That command does not require special permissions:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/mesg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4476 May 28 2002 /usr/bin/mesg
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