There is a watch in Linux ( man watch ) but you are right it's not as "full featured" as the one in BSD. I'd try this though. Grab the FreeBSD source and see if you can build it on Linux (odds are in your favor, but it could beg out.) Just don't install it in a bin directory in your path and it shouldn't cause a conflict. Talk will let you send a message to a tty, other programs may do other pieces and that's just about as close as I can get.
James On Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:46:56 -0700 (PDT) "Bill Wagner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Grabed a keyboard and said: > I've been asking this question on many a forum, but no one as of > yet has had an answer which is really what I'm looking for. > > But as some of you may know, there's a command in FreeBSD called > 'watch' that allows superuser to monitor the tty of a user > logged into the system. Although this has some inherent privacy > issues, it is most widely used as a troubleshooting tool to see > what users are doing (or are doing incorrectly). > And with the '-W' flag, they can also write to that tty. > > At any rate, although not completely Mandrake specific, I was > wondering if anyone on the list might know of a similar tool in > linux that does the same. > I thought I'd come across something that's pretty standard, but > in > revisiting this question, I'm coming up short. > > I'd sure appreciate any information anyone might have. > > Thanks! > > Bill > -- > Did you hear that, Marge? She called me a baboon! The > stupidest, ugliest, smelliest ape of them all! > > -- Homer Simpson > Lisa's Substitute > > > > >
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