<html><head></head><body>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.<br>
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- Tim<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On July 15, 2015 9:48:32 PM CDT, john hart <jsamcr@yahoo.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_2830"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_2969">Tim,</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_2830"><span><br /></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_2830"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_2970">Thanks for the feedback. I am the only user (standalone system), but I checked 'mesg' and made sure it was set </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_2830" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_3143">to 'mesg y' . And the execute permissions for wall are rwxr-sr-x and the filename is has a kind of orange highlighted</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_2830" dir="ltr"><span>background. Don't know what that means.</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_3344" class="">!
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id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_3346" class="" /></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_2830"><span>John</span></div><div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_2829"> </div><div class="signature" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_2828">"<i id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_2899">Science is organized common sense</i>. Philosophy is organized piffle" <br />-attributed to Bertrand Russel</div><br /> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_2814"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_2813"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_2812"> <hr size="1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_3144" /> <font size="2" face="Arial" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_2811"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Tim Dawson
<tadawson@tpcsvc.com><br /> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> john hart <jsamcr@yahoo.com>; NUT Developers <nut-upsdev@lists.alioth.debian.org> <br /> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_3562"><span style="font-weight: bold;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_3561">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, July 15, 2015 7:43 PM<br /> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_3560"><span style="font-weight: bold;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_3559">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Nut-upsdev] Good news<br /> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_2815"><br /><div id="yiv5304669567"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_2827">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 . . .<br clear="none" />
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- Tim<br clear="none" /><br clear="none" /><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br /><br /></div><div class="yiv5304669567yqt0090677880" id="yiv5304669567yqtfd39547"><div class="yiv5304669567gmail_quote" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_3291">On July 15, 2015 7:43:38 PM CDT, john hart <jsamcr@yahoo.com> wrote:<blockquote class="yiv5304669567gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex;">
<div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div id="yiv5304669567yui_3_16_0_1_1437006769578_2853"><span id="yiv5304669567yui_3_16_0_1_1437006769578_2890">Tried 'echo hi | wall' and no message. I looked at 'wall -h' and it would seem that it is supposed to. I even</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv5304669567yui_3_16_0_1_1437006769578_2853"><span id="yiv5304669567yui_3_16_0_1_1437006769578_3084">tried ' wall [<filename> | <message>] ' and got nothing. Not sure what that means, as when using the</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv5304669567yui_3_16_0_1_1437006769578_2853"><span>NUT-Monitor program I get banners and a 'message' on the system try. Strange !</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv5304669567yui_3_16_0_1_1437006769578_2853"><span><br clear="none" /></span></div><div dir="ltr"
id="yiv5304669567yui_3_16_0_1_1437006769578_2853"><span>John </span></div><div></div><div id="yiv5304669567yui_3_16_0_1_1437006769578_2854"> </div><div class="yiv5304669567signature" id="yiv5304669567yui_3_16_0_1_1437006769578_2856">"<i id="yiv5304669567yui_3_16_0_1_1437006769578_2855">Science is organized common sense</i>. Philosophy is organized piffle" <br clear="none" />-attributed to Bertrand Russel</div><br clear="none" /> <div id="yiv5304669567yui_3_16_0_1_1437006769578_2893" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"> <div id="yiv5304669567yui_3_16_0_1_1437006769578_2892" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> <div dir="ltr" id="yiv5304669567yui_3_16_0_1_1437006769578_2891"> <hr id="yiv5304669567yui_3_16_0_1_1437006769578_3085" size="1" /> <font id="yiv5304669567yui_3_16_0_1_1437006769578!
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size="2" face="Arial"> <b id="yiv5304669567yui_3_16_0_1_1437006769578_2895"><span id="yiv5304669567yui_3_16_0_1_1437006769578_2894" style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Charles Lepple <clepple@gmail.com><br clear="none" /> <b id="yiv5304669567yui_3_16_0_1_1437006769578_2898"><span id="yiv5304669567yui_3_16_0_1_1437006769578_2897" style="font-weight:bold;">To:</span></b> john hart <jsamcr@yahoo.com> <br clear="none" /><b id="yiv5304669567yui_3_16_0_1_1437006769578_2900"><span id="yiv5304669567yui_3_16_0_1_1437006769578_2899" style="font-weight:bold;">Cc:</span></b> NUT Developers <nut-upsdev@lists.alioth.debian.org> <br clear="none" /> <b id="yiv5304669567yui_3_16_0_1_1437006769578_2953"><span id="yiv5304669567yui_3_16_0_1_1437006769578_2952" style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, July 15, 2015 6:12 PM<br clear="none" /> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: Good news<br clear="none" /> </font> </div> <div
class="yiv5304669567y_msg_container" id="yiv5304669567yui_3_16_0_1_1437006769578_2901"><br clear="none" />On Jul 15, 2015, at 12:38 PM, john hart <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" id="yiv5304669567yui_3_16_0_1_1437006769578_3086" ymailto="mailto:jsamcr@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:jsamcr@yahoo.com">jsamcr@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none" /><br clear="none" />> So, the system shut down and turned off the UPS, which is exactly what !
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have expected. Also, when I <br clear="none" />> reconnected the AC power the system did NOT automatically start up, which again is what I would have wanted,<br clear="none" />> and hoped for. <br clear="none" /><br clear="none" />Good to hear!<div class="yiv5304669567qtdSeparateBR"><br clear="none" /><br clear="none" /></div><div class="yiv5304669567yqt2898493933" id="yiv5304669567yqtfd76938"><br clear="none" /><br clear="none" />> So, in conclusion, NUT appears to be working correctly. Just wish I new why I wasn't getting messages. But I <br clear="none" />> can live with the way it is. Thanks for all your help and a big thank you to the developers. </div><br clear="none" /><br clear="none" />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.<br clear="none" />!
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