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Operating Systems Linux Debian Turning on write-permission in Debian? Post 302070364 by cbkihong on Tuesday 4th of April 2006 09:51:52 AM
Old 04-04-2006
The destination user must have used the command

mesg y

to enable others to write to his/her terminal. There is no way to override this, as this is a privacy feature.
 

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Config::Model::Backend::Debian::Dpkg::Patch(3pm)	User Contributed Perl Documentation	  Config::Model::Backend::Debian::Dpkg::Patch(3pm)

NAME
Config::Model::Backend::Debian::Dpkg::Patch - Read and write Debian Dpkg Patch information VERSION
version 2.021 SYNOPSIS
No synopsis. This class is dedicated to configuration class "Debian::Dpkg::Patch" DESCRIPTION
This module is used directly by Config::Model to read or write the content of Debian "Patch" file. All "Patch" files keyword are read in a case-insensitive manner. CONSTRUCTOR
new ( node => $node_obj, name => 'Debian::Dpkg::Patch' ) ; Inherited from Config::Model::Backend::Any. The constructor will be called by Config::Model::AutoRead. read ( io_handle => ... ) Of all parameters passed to this read call-back, only "io_handle" is used. This parameter must be IO::File object already opened for read. It can also be undef. In this case, "read()" will return 0. When a file is read, "read()" will return 1. write ( io_handle => ... ) Of all parameters passed to this write call-back, only "io_handle" is used. This parameter must be IO::File object already opened for write. "write()" will return 1. AUTHOR
Dominique Dumont, (ddumont at cpan dot org) SEE ALSO
Config::Model, Config::Model::AutoRead, Config::Model::Backend::Any, perl v5.14.2 2012-11-09 Config::Model::Backend::Debian::Dpkg::Patch(3pm)
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