Bug 25680 – wall messages not received on X terminal sessions

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Klaus-J. Wolf 2003-07-31 20:52:39 UTC]

Neither shutdown nor wall important messages are displayed on standard X terminals.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. shutdown -k +5 this message will not be displayed
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Actual Results:  
On X terminals, there will be no message at all.

Expected Results:  
A message should be displayed, like it would be on console, or on SSH sessions.

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2003-07-31 20:57:13 UTC]

it depends on the terminal and how the terminal launches the shell if i 
remember correctly 

[Comment 2 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2003-08-04 12:03:34 UTC]

Cant either.  Adding the rest of the gang.

[Comment 3 bartron 2003-09-05 15:47:20 UTC]

  What does "ls -l `tty`" say?

[Comment 4 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) 2004-06-30 09:26:48 UTC]

works for me with xterm +ls and xterm -ls.  I also saw this work correctly for a shutdown with ssh sessions.  Since this hasn't been updated in nearly a year, I'm closing it until we have more information