From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 28 11:39:31 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7689E37B4AA for ; Fri, 28 Mar 2003 11:39:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A4AE44093 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 2003 11:36:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsduser@attbi.com) Received: from attbi.com (12-225-141-88.client.attbi.com[12.225.141.88]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01) with SMTP id <2003032819361800100d05jae>; Fri, 28 Mar 2003 19:36:18 +0000 Message-ID: <3E84A430.8030402@attbi.com> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 11:36:16 -0800 From: K Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gerard Samuel References: <3E847586.6050703@trini0.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-27.9 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, RCVD_IN_UNCONFIRMED_DSBL,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Stupid question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 19:39:36 -0000 Gerard Samuel wrote: > How does one send a message to another logged in user on the same box > via the command line?? > Thanks > No such thing as a stupid question, it's the answers you have to worry about that make it seem stupid. Dictionary.com defines stupid as: 1. Slow to learn or understand; obtuse. 2. Tending to make poor decisions or careless mistakes. 3. Marked by a lack of intelligence or care; foolish or careless: a stupid mistake. 4. Dazed, stunned, or stupefied. 5. Pointless; worthless: a stupid job. From bottom to top, 5 - Your question was not pointless or worthless. 4 - Hopefully it wasn't any of these. 3 - Hmmm, we're getting dangerously close to questions being stupid, but unless some previous life experience exposed this to you then nope. 2 - It certainly wasn't a poor decision or careless mistake that you asked a question. 1 - Being slow to learn or understand a given problem isn't really that bad. With all the different commands, software packages, utilities and what nots for any given OS, unless you encountered it through a life experience or learned it then that wouldn't make one a slow learner. At most it is getting close to obtuse. But even then unless you encountered the concept of your question it really doesn't count. You can start with /man write/ then go from there, being sure to review the SEE ALSO section for other commands that might do what you want as well. HTH :)