<html><body><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_1437015388300_2943">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, but</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437015388300_2943" dir="ltr">i tried to send a mesg using ' write ' and it says I have messages disabled. ????? I did that by opening two </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437015388300_2943" dir="ltr">terminals, on I logged in as ' su ', and sent the message from there. Is that peculiar? Might account for why I am not</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437015388300_2943" dir="ltr">getting anything from ' wall ' .</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437015388300_2943" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437015388300_2943" dir="ltr">John</div><div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437015388300_2945"> </div><div class="signature" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437015388300_2989">"<i id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437015388300_3026">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_1437015388300_2993"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437015388300_2992"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437015388300_2991"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437015388300_2990"> <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><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, July 15, 2015 8:52 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Nut-upsdev] Good news<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437015388300_2994"><br><div id="yiv7172814073"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437015388300_2995">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 clear="none">
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- Tim<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yiv7172814073yqt1530415334" id="yiv7172814073yqtfd62799"><div class="yiv7172814073gmail_quote" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437015388300_3006">On July 15, 2015 9:48:32 PM CDT, john hart <jsamcr@yahoo.com> wrote:<blockquote class="yiv7172814073gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437015388300_3005">
<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;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437015388300_3004"><div id="yiv7172814073yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_2830"><span id="yiv7172814073yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_2969">Tim,</span></div><div id="yiv7172814073yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_2830"><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div id="yiv7172814073yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_2830"><span id="yiv7172814073yui_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 dir="ltr" id="yiv7172814073yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_2830"><span id="yiv7172814073yui_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 dir="ltr" id="yiv7172814073yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_2830"><span>background. Don't know what that means.</span></div><div class="yiv7172814073" dir="ltr" id="yiv7172814073yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_3344">!
<br clear="none" class="yiv7172814073" id="yiv7172814073yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_3346"></div><div id="yiv7172814073yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_2830"><span>John</span></div><div></div><div id="yiv7172814073yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_2829"> </div><div class="yiv7172814073signature" id="yiv7172814073yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_2828">"<i id="yiv7172814073yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_2899">Science is organized common sense</i>. Philosophy is organized piffle" <br clear="none">-attributed to Bertrand Russel</div><br clear="none"> <div id="yiv7172814073yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_2814" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"> <div id="yiv7172814073yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_2813" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> <div dir="ltr" id="yiv7172814073yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_2812"> <hr id="yiv7172814073yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_3144" size="1"> <font id="yiv7172814073yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_2811" size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Tim Dawson
<tadawson@tpcsvc.com><br clear="none"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">To:</span></b> john hart <jsamcr@yahoo.com>; NUT Developers <nut-upsdev@lists.alioth.debian.org> <br clear="none"> <b id="yiv7172814073yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_3562"><span id="yiv7172814073yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_3561" style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, July 15, 2015 7:43 PM<br clear="none"> <b id="yiv7172814073yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_3560"><span id="yiv7172814073yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_3559" style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Nut-upsdev] Good news<br clear="none"> </font> </div> <div class="yiv7172814073y_msg_container" id="yiv7172814073yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_2815"><br clear="none"><div id="yiv7172814073"><div id="yiv7172814073yui_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="yiv7172814073qtdSeparateBR"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv7172814073yqt0090677880" id="yiv7172814073yqtfd39547"><div class="yiv7172814073gmail_quote" id="yiv7172814073yui_3_16_0_1_1437014292917_3291">On July 15, 2015 7:43:38 PM CDT, john hart <jsamcr@yahoo.com> wrote:<blockquote class="yiv7172814073gmail_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="yiv7172814073yui_3_16_0_1_1437006769578_2853"><span id="yiv7172814073yui_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="yiv7172814073yui_3_16_0_1_1437006769578_2853"><span id="yiv7172814073yui_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="yiv7172814073yui_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="yiv7172814073yui_3_16_0_1_1437006769578_2853"><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv7172814073yui_3_16_0_1_1437006769578_2853"><span>John </span></div><div></div><div id="yiv7172814073yui_3_16_0_1_1437006769578_2854"> </div><div class="yiv7172814073signature" id="yiv7172814073yui_3_16_0_1_1437006769578_2856">"<i id="yiv7172814073yui_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="yiv7172814073yui_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="yiv7172814073yui_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="yiv7172814073yui_3_16_0_1_1437006769578_2891"> <hr id="yiv7172814073yui_3_16_0_1_1437006769578_3085" size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b id="yiv7172814073yui_3_16_0_1_1437006769578_2895"><span id="yiv7172814073yui_3_16_0_1_1437006769578_2894" style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Charles Lepple <clepple@gmail.com><br clear="none"> <b id="yiv7172814073yui_3_16_0_1_1437006769578_2898"><span id="yiv7172814073yui_3_16_0_1_1437006769578_2897" style="font-weight:bold;">To:</span></b> john hart <jsamcr@yahoo.com> <br clear="none"><b id="yiv7172814073yui_3_16_0_1_1437006769578_2900"><span id="yiv7172814073yui_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="yiv7172814073yui_3_16_0_1_1437006769578_2953"><span id="yiv7172814073yui_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="yiv7172814073y_msg_container" id="yiv7172814073yui_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="yiv7172814073yui_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="yiv7172814073qtdSeparateBR"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv7172814073yqt2898493933" id="yiv7172814073yqtfd76938"><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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