[Nut-upsdev] Good news

[Tim Dawson]

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
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>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.
>
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