Re: Firewall

[Bob Ham <nospam [at] dcs.shef.ac.uk>]

On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Richard wrote:

> WALL:  /dev/ttyp0: Input/output error
> WALL:  /dev/ttyp1: Input/output error

I believe that wall sends messages to all users who are logged in.  If
this is the case, it would seem that there are two terminals open on
ttyp0 and ttyp1 and that your script (or a program run in it) is trying
to msg all users and failing on these. ttypx are terminals assigned to
telnet logins if I remember correctly.

The only source of error that I can think of is that you're using
/dev/pts things for terminals and /dev/ttypx's are dodgey.  But then, I
thought they were only for consoles :/

Most odd

Bob

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