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Article #500Weird UNIX commands revisited.
From: cool... Pixel
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1989 22:17
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1989 22:17
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Playing around with window last week, I discovered that each window opened up has it's own tty assigned to it. However, the program isn't smart enough to make the user the owner of that /dev/tty file. It still belongs to root. If you try writing to someone, they get "message from ???@node..." because you didn't send the write as far as UNIX is concerned. Another interesting side effect is that you can't use talk. Try it and you get "You don't exist. Go away." I guess the sense of humor isn't entirely gone. Either that or the people who set up *our* UNIX system have it.... ----- Pixel cooleyra@clutx. clarkson.edu | bitnet "Keep the wind in your solar sails..." --Glenn Clapp "here log (ln) changes to a different log (log)" (no reason given) --A.Fokas Disclaimer: opinions==mine; me<>cct
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news From: cool...@clutx.clarkson.edu (Pixel,,,) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Weird UNIX commands revisited. Message-ID: <1989Dec18.221721.6561@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> Date: 18 Dec 89 22:17:21 GMT Sender: ne...@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: cool...@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY Lines: 16 Posted: Mon Dec 18 23:17:21 1989 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit