[5096] in RedHat Linux List
Re: your party is refusing messages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Mitchell)
Mon Nov 18 23:54:03 1996
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 22:49:07 -0600 (CST)
From: Jon Mitchell <jrmitche@staff.uiuc.edu>
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On Mon, 18 Nov 1996, Corey J Stotts wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 18 Nov 1996, Joshua Spoerri wrote:
>
> > on several colgate boxes, when i attempt to "talk" a user that isn't logged in,
> > i get the message:
> >
> > [Your party is refusing messages]
> >
> > this also happens with ytalk, so it might be a talkd thing.
> > any ideas?
> This is because RedHat defaults to 'mesg n'. My old slack 3.0 didn't. The
> other party has to do 'mesg y' to receive such messages.
Doesn't anybody carefully read what the message is saying, this is the
second response that has nothing to do with the question. What he wants
to know is why does it say "your party is refusing messages" when it should
say "your party is not logged in"?
Jon Mitchell CCSO Sites Tech Crew
jrmitche@uiuc.edu
*speaks only for himself*
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