Debian bug report logs - #1658, boring messages

Subject: Bug#1658: write: you have write permission turned off
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Package: bsdutils
Version: 1.3-1

Other than not being setgid tty (Bug#1545), if I run write without doing
"mesg y" first, it won't work (write: you have write permission turned
off) even for root...  This might be a good feature for ordinary users,
but I think write should only print a warning and still work for root.

Marek

From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: Marek Michalkiewicz <marekm@i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl>
Subject: Bug#1658: Acknowledgement (was: write: you have write permission turned off)
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