* didier gaumet <didier.gau...@gmail.com> [24-12/05=Th 10:11 +0100]: > Le 05/12/2024 à 06:52, Ben Wong a écrit : >> Howdy! >> >> On most (all?) current Unix systems I can use `write` to communicate >> with users logged in over `ssh`. However, now that Debian is removing >> `mesg` and `writed` from util-linux [1], I'm wondering what the >> officially recommended replacement is. I mean, I suppose I could always >> look up their phone number and call them, but that feels so 1970s... :-D >> >> Thanks, >> >> Ben >> >> [1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1088190 >> <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1088190> > > Hello, > > the bsdextrautils package implements a /usr/bin/write command
But bsdextrautils doesn't have 'wall' or 'mesg'. I've found sleep $duration && wall Turn on radio to be useful on a new machine that doesn't have sound working yet. It's a bad idea to remove a standard utility just because maintainers can't imagine why it's useful. As in this case, that is likely to be a failure of imagination; security is irrelevant to one-line reminders on a single machine. I've also found 'talk' useful.
