From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jul 24 7:49: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38CEA37B400 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 07:49:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.noos.fr (claudel.noos.net [212.198.2.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F322143E4A for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 07:48:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@gits.dyndns.org) Received: (qmail 33801380 invoked by uid 0); 24 Jul 2002 14:48:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gits.gits.dyndns.org) ([212.198.229.153]) (envelope-sender ) by 212.198.2.83 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 24 Jul 2002 14:48:58 -0000 Received: from gits.gits.dyndns.org (hnmyvqyajgcw2rvl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gits.gits.dyndns.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6OEmwq4014053; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 16:48:58 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from root@gits.dyndns.org) Received: (from root@localhost) by gits.gits.dyndns.org (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g6OEmu7V014052; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 16:48:56 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from root) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 16:48:56 +0200 From: Cyrille Lefevre To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Johan Karlsson , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adding '-t tty' to biff(1)/mesg(1) Message-ID: <20020724144856.GC4475@gits.dyndns.org> References: <20020723225247.G50574@numeri.campus.luth.se> <20020724074730.GE56717@starjuice.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020724074730.GE56717@starjuice.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Organization: ACME X-Face: V|+c;4!|B?E%BE^{E6);aI.[< List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 09:47:30AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > On (2002/07/23 22:52), Johan Karlsson wrote: > > > Currently there is no way of changing the biff/mesg > > status of a tty where another program is running. > > (except if you know all the gory details about biff and mesg) > > For mesg(1), you can use shell redirection to accomplish your goal, > as with tools like vidcontrol(1): > > mesg y < /dev/ttyp7 > > This doesn't work for biff(1). it works using : biff n 2< /dev/ttyv3 see comments on PR #13073. Cyrille. -- Cyrille Lefevre mailto:cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message