[4024] in RedHat Linux List
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve \"Stevers!\" Coile)
Tue Nov 12 08:21:41 1996
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 08:19:02 -0500 (EST)
From: "Steve \"Stevers!\" Coile" <scoile@patriot.net>
To: Borg <vladimip@iceonline.com>
cc: Red Hat Mailing List <redhat-list@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <32882C25.2914D0BA@iceonline.com>
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On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Borg wrote:
> Try this on your command line: it screwes up
> all tty's and pty's of all users:
>
> echo -e "\033c\033(0\033#8\033[1;3r\033[J\033[5m\033[?5h"|wall
>
> Very unpleasant because someone with user access can
> temporarily interrupt anything others (including root)
> are doing on their consoles/xterms.
Let's be a little more precise: it'll affect all VT100 or compatible
terminal users who have messages enabled.
In my opinion, root should never have messages enabled.
In my opinion, write and wall should not pass on non-printable characters
(e.g. Escape).
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Steve Coile P a t r i o t N e t Systems Engineering
scoile@patriot.net Patriot Computer Group (703) 277-7737
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