FC6 - write disabled

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Thu Nov 23 22:20:28 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 16:10 +0100, Aaron Pohle wrote:
> Hello,
> i would use write to communicate, but write is disabled:
> aaron at tux:~> write testuser
> write: testuser has messages disabled
> 
> testuser at tux:~> mesg y
> mesg: error: tty device is not owned by group `tty'
> 
> How can i enable write.
> 
> Thanks,
> Aaron
> 
Well check the group that tty is in. You error message seems to say that
it must be in group tty. Also the user you write to must be logged on at
the time.
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