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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions at reminder script Post 302560719 by csharp100 on Friday 30th of September 2011 04:16:30 PM

09-30-2011

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Originally Posted by Corona688

Show me exactly what you tried.

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I think I understood in the first place.

write is trying to terminal commands on a non-terminal device(being run from 'at', it has no terminal!) which isn't the end of the world, but also blabs error messages when it does, which isn't what you want.

The redirection I showed you ought to work, but may have gone into the wrong place, can you show me exactly what you tried?

I tried,

Code:

 write $LOGNAME < ~/Msgs/message.$$ > /dev/null 2>dev/null

and

Code:

 write $LOGNAME < ~/Msgs/message.$$ > /dev/null 2>&1

I did take out the

Code:

 || mail $LOGNAME < ~/Msgs/message.$$

on both tries.
When I tried both, I got the same message mailed to me and did not get my write message at all. It also included an "Ambiguous redirection" in the mail messages as well.

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MESG(1) 						    BSD General Commands Manual 						   MESG(1)

NAME

     mesg -- display (do not display) messages from other users

SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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     The first terminal device in the sequence of devices associated with standard input, standard output and standard error is affected.

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     n	   Disallows messages.

     y	   Permits messages to be displayed.

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EXAMPLES

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DIAGNOSTICS

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	    0	 Messages are allowed.
	    1	 Messages are not allowed.
	   >1	 An error has occurred.

COMPATIBILITY

     Previous versions of the mesg utility wrote the message status to the standard error output and affected the terminal attached to standard
     error without first trying the standard input or output devices.

SEE ALSO

     biff(1), talk(1), wall(1), write(1)

STANDARDS

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HISTORY

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								    May 5, 2002 							       BSD

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