how do you message people

[Harvey]

how do you message people on your box?

so they would see a message liek this at their console or whatever.

Message from nos@localhost on pts/1 at 22:40 ...
I AM COOL HAHAHAHAHH
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a friend did it and i wanna know how http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

[Luthor]

"talk"???



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Luthor St. James
(aka [AcK]BillTheCat)

[Harvey]

yeah that's it http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif thanks dude.

[A_Lawn_GNOME]

There's also write and wall ("write all", it's root only).

[stewart]

How do I message people?

I climb up the highest hill in my area and light a fire and use smoke signals as a communciations meduim.

:-)

[X_console]

A cool trick (which works on some UNIX systems) is to see if the terminal they're on is world writable. Eg:

moonfrog$ w
08:46AM up 43 days, 17:12, 20 users, load average: 3.63, 3.35, 3.34
User tty login@ idle JCPU PCPU what
xconsole pts/0 07:56AM 49 0 0 -tcsh
darrien pts/1 06:38PM 7:40 38:50 2 -csh
futon pts/2 08:26AM 1 0 0 (pine)

moonfrog$ ls -l /dev/pts/1
crw--w--w- 1 darrien users 20, 1 Dec 13 01:05 /dev/pts/1

moonfrog$ echo 'Hey there!' > /dev/pts/1

This will show up as follows on darrien's console:

darrien@moonfrog$ Hey there!

Notice how it doesn't say _who_ it's from. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif Great for driving people crazy. It can be used to DoS them as well if you know how, which I won't explain here. The way to stop it is simply "mesg n"

[Luthor]

LOL!

I like that idea http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

Thanks!



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Luthor St. James
(aka [AcK]BillTheCat)