Tim, Thanks for the feedback. ?I am the only user (standalone system), but I checked 'mesg' and made sure it was set?to 'mesg y' . ? And the execute permissions for wall are ? rwxr-sr-x ?and the filename is has a ?kind of orange highlightedbackground. Don't know what that means. John?"Science is organized common sense. Philosophy is organized piffle" -attributed to Bertrand Russel From: Tim Dawson <tadawson at tpcsvc.com> To: john hart <jsamcr at yahoo.com>; NUT Developers <nut-upsdev at lists.alioth.debian.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 7:43 PM Subject: Re: [Nut-upsdev] Good news Any chance someone put 'mesg n' in the system profiles? That wou;d suppress wall output. Try typing just 'mesg' and see what it says . . . otherwise, check permissions on wall perhaps . . . - Tim On July 15, 2015 7:43:38 PM CDT, john hart <jsamcr at yahoo.com> wrote: Tried 'echo hi | wall' and no message. ?I looked at 'wall -h' and it would seem that it is supposed to. ?I eventried ?' wall ?[<filename> | <message>] ' ?and got nothing. ? Not sure what that means, as when using theNUT-Monitor program I get banners and a 'message' on the system try. ? Strange ! John ??"Science is organized common sense. Philosophy is organized piffle" -attributed to Bertrand Russel From: Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com> To: john hart <jsamcr at yahoo.com> Cc: NUT Developers <nut-upsdev at lists.alioth.debian.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 6:12 PM Subject: Re: Good news On Jul 15, 2015, at 12:38 PM, john hart <jsamcr at yahoo.com> wrote:> So, the system shut down and turned off the UPS, which is exactly what ! I wouldhave expected.? Also, when I > reconnected the AC power the system did NOT automatically start up, which again is what I would have wanted, > and hoped for.?Good to hear!> So, in conclusion, NUT appears to be working correctly.? Just wish I new why I wasn't getting messages.? But I > can live with the way it is.? Thanks for all your help and a big thank you to the developers.?Not sure if you mentioned, but if you run something like "echo hi | wall", does it broadcast a message? If not, I'd say that's a bug in wall, but you could configure upsmon to run a different program to send a message. -- Charles Lepple clepple at gmail Nut-upsdev mailing list Nut-upsdev at lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsdev -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsdev/attachments/20150716/81d101b0/attachment.html>
Who is the owner and group for wall? Note that it is set group ID to allow it to write to sessions . . . thus, that owner needs to be a system account that can write to devices, not just Joe-Bob . . . You might also try 'strace wall' to see what it is trying to do. - Tim On July 15, 2015 9:48:32 PM CDT, john hart <jsamcr at yahoo.com> wrote:>Tim, >Thanks for the feedback. ?I am the only user (standalone system), but I >checked 'mesg' and made sure it was set?to 'mesg y' . ? And the execute >permissions for wall are ? rwxr-sr-x ?and the filename is has a ?kind >of orange highlightedbackground. Don't know what that means. >John?"Science is organized common sense. Philosophy is organized >piffle" >-attributed to Bertrand Russel > From: Tim Dawson <tadawson at tpcsvc.com> >To: john hart <jsamcr at yahoo.com>; NUT Developers ><nut-upsdev at lists.alioth.debian.org> > Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 7:43 PM > Subject: Re: [Nut-upsdev] Good news > >Any chance someone put 'mesg n' in the system profiles? That wou;d >suppress wall output. Try typing just 'mesg' and see what it says . . . >otherwise, check permissions on wall perhaps . . . > >- Tim > > > >On July 15, 2015 7:43:38 PM CDT, john hart <jsamcr at yahoo.com> wrote: >Tried 'echo hi | wall' and no message. ?I looked at 'wall -h' and it >would seem that it is supposed to. ?I eventried ?' wall ?[<filename> | ><message>] ' ?and got nothing. ? Not sure what that means, as when >using theNUT-Monitor program I get banners and a 'message' on the >system try. ? Strange ! >John ??"Science is organized common sense. Philosophy is organized >piffle" >-attributed to Bertrand Russel > From: Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com> > To: john hart <jsamcr at yahoo.com> >Cc: NUT Developers <nut-upsdev at lists.alioth.debian.org> > Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 6:12 PM > Subject: Re: Good news > >On Jul 15, 2015, at 12:38 PM, john hart <jsamcr at yahoo.com> wrote: > >> So, the system shut down and turned off the UPS, which is exactly >what ! I wouldhave expected.? Also, when I >> reconnected the AC power the system did NOT automatically start up, >which again is what I would have wanted, >> and hoped for.? > >Good to hear! > > > >> So, in conclusion, NUT appears to be working correctly.? Just wish I >new why I wasn't getting messages.? But I >> can live with the way it is.? Thanks for all your help and a big >thank you to the developers.? > >Not sure if you mentioned, but if you run something like "echo hi | >wall", does it broadcast a message? If not, I'd say that's a bug in >wall, but you could configure upsmon to run a different program to send >a message. > >-- >Charles Lepple >clepple at gmail > > > > > >Nut-upsdev mailing list >Nut-upsdev at lists.alioth.debian.org >http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsdev > >-- >Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.-- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsdev/attachments/20150715/265b72d6/attachment-0001.html>
Time, not sure who owner is, but I've tried as both admin and myself, to no avail. ?However, I told you that mesg is y, buti tried to send a mesg using ?' write ' ?and it says I have messages disabled. ????? ? I did that by opening two?terminals, on I logged in as ' su ', and sent the message from there. ?Is that peculiar? Might account for why I am notgetting anything from ' wall ' . John?"Science is organized common sense. Philosophy is organized piffle" -attributed to Bertrand Russel From: Tim Dawson <tadawson at tpcsvc.com> To: john hart <jsamcr at yahoo.com>; NUT Developers <nut-upsdev at lists.alioth.debian.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 8:52 PM Subject: Re: [Nut-upsdev] Good news Who is the owner and group for wall? Note that it is set group ID to allow it to write to sessions . . . thus, that owner needs to be a system account that can write to devices, not just Joe-Bob . . . You might also try 'strace wall' to see what it is trying to do. - Tim On July 15, 2015 9:48:32 PM CDT, john hart <jsamcr at yahoo.com> wrote: Tim, Thanks for the feedback. ?I am the only user (standalone system), but I checked 'mesg' and made sure it was set?to 'mesg y' . ? And the execute permissions for wall are ? rwxr-sr-x ?and the filename is has a ?kind of orange highlightedbackground. Don't know what that means.! John?"Science is organized common sense. Philosophy is organized piffle" -attributed to Bertrand Russel From: Tim Dawson<tadawson at tpcsvc.com> To: john hart <jsamcr at yahoo.com>; NUT Developers <nut-upsdev at lists.alioth.debian.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 7:43 PM Subject: Re: [Nut-upsdev] Good news Any chance someone put 'mesg n' in the system profiles? That wou;d suppress wall output. Try typing just 'mesg' and see what it says . . . otherwise, check permissions on wall perhaps . . . - Tim On July 15, 2015 7:43:38 PM CDT, john hart <jsamcr at yahoo.com> wrote: Tried 'echo hi | wall' and no message. ?I looked at 'wall -h' and it would seem that it is supposed to. ?I eventried ?' wall ?[<filename> | <message>] ' ?and got nothing. ? Not sure what that means, as when using theNUT-Monitor program I get banners and a 'message' on the system try. ? Strange ! John ??"Science is organized common sense. Philosophy is organized piffle" -attributed to Bertrand Russel From: Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com> To: john hart <jsamcr at yahoo.com> Cc: NUT Developers <nut-upsdev at lists.alioth.debian.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 6:12 PM Subject: Re: Good news On Jul 15, 2015, at 12:38 PM, john hart <jsamcr at yahoo.com> wrote:> So, the system shut down and turned off the UPS, which is exactly what ! I wouldhave expected.? Also, when I > reconnected the AC power the system did NOT automatically start up, which again is what I would have wanted, > and hoped for.?Good to hear!> So, in conclusion, NUT appears to be working correctly.? Just wish I new why I wasn't getting messages.? But I > can live with the way it is.? Thanks for all your help and a big thank you to the developers.?Not sure if you mentioned, but if you run something like "echo hi | wall", does it broadcast a message? If not, I'd say that's a bug in wall, but you could configure upsmon to run a different program to send a message. ! -- Charles Lepple clepple at gmail Nut-upsdev mailing list Nut-upsdev at lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsdev -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsdev/attachments/20150716/cfd298b6/attachment.html>