[Nut-upsdev] Good news

[Tim Dawson]

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
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>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 would have 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!
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>> 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.
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