broadcast messages

[Michael Traxler]

Hello,

I don't know if it is an urxvt issue, but I realized that a broadcast message
via the linux wall-command doesn't arrive on urxvt terminals.

So, if I call

$ date | wall

I get this date on xterm, lxterminal, gnome-terminal, but nothing on urxvt.

$ mesg 
is y

The message directly via a pts works:
$ date > /dev/pts/0

This happens for 
rxvt-unicode (urxvt) v9.16 - released: 2012-11-06
and
rxvt-unicode (urxvt) v9.19 - released: 2013-10-27

Any idea what I have to set to get this working?

The following workaround is ugly:

$ export MESSAGE="system is shutting down in X minutes."
$ ls /dev/pts/* | perl -ne 'chomp; $c="echo \"$ENV{'MESSAGE'}\" > $_"; qx($c)'

Thanks,

Michael