Debian bug report logs - #1658 write: you have write permission turned off Package: bsdutils ; Reported by: Marek Michalkiewicz ; 19 days old. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl!marekm Thu Oct 12 13:46:04 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0t3UVw-000ADYC; Thu, 12 Oct 95 13:46 PDT Received: from i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl by pixar.com with SMTP id AA01571 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Thu, 12 Oct 1995 13:45:37 -0700 Received: (from marekm@localhost) by i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl (8.6.12/8.6.9) id VAA32220 for debian-bugs@pixar.com; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 21:45:52 +0100 From: Marek Michalkiewicz Message-Id: <199510122045.VAA32220@i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl> Subject: write: you have write permission turned off To: debian-bugs@pixar.com Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 21:45:49 +0100 (MET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 328 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to Marek Michalkiewicz : New bug report received and forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Report forwarded to debian-devel@pixar.com : Bug#1658 ; Package bsdutils . Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 07:43:01 GMT Wed 01 Nov