Re: bug in talk-server + /dev/pts/?

2002-04-30 Thread Quentin Mason
Hi, > > # Uncomment the following if you want to set the group to "tty" for the > > # pseudo-tty devices. This is necessary so that mesg(1) can later be used > > # to enable/disable talk requests and wall(1) messages. > > REGISTER ^pty/s. PERMISSIONS -1.tty 0600 > > REGISTER ^pts/.* PERMISSION

Re: bug in talk-server + /dev/pts/?

2002-04-15 Thread Ben Reser
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 11:52:29AM -0400, Quentin Mason wrote: > I am on level 2 [internet access is through a firewall], so it is lower > than yours. I could not find any info in /usr/share/doc/msec-0.19, > /var/lib/msec/security.conf or any of the perms files in /usr/share/msec, > man msec o

Re: bug in talk-server + /dev/pts/?

2002-04-15 Thread Quentin Mason
Hi, > On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 02:08:21AM -0400, Quentin Mason wrote: > > I usually have "mesg y" in the interactive section of my login scripts so > > that people may "talk" or "ytalk" to me when I am interactively using that > > login [cf "mesg n" for remote batch jobs]. > > > > On my new

Re: bug in talk-server + /dev/pts/?

2002-04-15 Thread Ben Reser
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 02:08:21AM -0400, Quentin Mason wrote: > I usually have "mesg y" in the interactive section of my login scripts so > that people may "talk" or "ytalk" to me when I am interactively using that > login [cf "mesg n" for remote batch jobs]. > > On my new vanilla Mandrake 8

bug in talk-server + /dev/pts/?

2002-04-14 Thread Quentin Mason
Hi, I usually have "mesg y" in the interactive section of my login scripts so that people may "talk" or "ytalk" to me when I am interactively using that login [cf "mesg n" for remote batch jobs]. On my new vanilla Mandrake 8.2\beta2 install mesg y fails in bash, tcsh etc at all times. The