broadcast messages

[Patrick Serru]

Le samedi 04 janvier 2014, Michael Traxler a écrit :
> 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
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	Hi all,

	I did intensively use WALL, but there is a long time. I tryed recently, on my 
Open SUSE 12.2, and mentionned that the "special window" open by KDE3 was no 
longer open, nor the message displayed in Konsole, nor URXVT. Then I tryed 
with XTerm: it works OK!

	Is there any configuration that could cause this beavior ?

	Sincerly,
Patrick