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To: Justin <marcus@sensation.net.au>
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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 11:19:05 +0000
From: John McLaughlin <mclaughj@segasoft.com>
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> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 19:16:58 -0600
> From: Don Read <sysop@calcasieu.com>
> Subject: Re: wall
> 
> At 11:40 AM 12/16/98 +1100, Justin wrote:
> >heya
> >i no this isnt exactly a minor thing but anyways :)
> >when i do like 'wall file' or shutdown -r now
> >i get something like
> >wall: tempory file not found ???
> >can someone please assist me so i can get it working again ?
> >Thanks
> >
> 
> Your /tmp directory is missing or read only.


	It's not actually (well probably not anyway). I got the same
having CVSUPed a few days ago (RELENG_2_2). From the source code
(wall.c) it appears that these lines in makemsg():

        char *p, *whom, hostname[MAXHOSTNAMELEN], lbuf[256], tmpname[64];

        printf(tmpname, sizeof(tmpname), "%s/wall.XXXXXX", _PATH_TMP);

    Should actually be:

        char *p, *whom, hostname[MAXHOSTNAMELEN], lbuf[256], tmpname[64];

        snprintf(tmpname, sizeof(tmpname), "%s/wall.XXXXXX", _PATH_TMP);
        ^^^^^^^^

	According to the CVS logs this was fixed on Dec 15th, so grab
the new version, recompile and install wall, and it should be fine.

John



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