Hi Santiago, util-linux recently stopped installing mesg(1).
On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 09:45:07PM +0100, Alban Browaeys wrote: > But a note to edit the root user profile > should be added if required by util-linux. > > I have a system with a newer install that has as its /root/.profile: > " > # ~/.profile: executed by Bourne-compatible login shells. > > if [ "$BASH" ]; then > if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then > . ~/.bashrc > fi > fi > > mesg n 2> /dev/null || true Could you see to updating bash-files' dot.profile, which AFAICT is the template for /root/.profile? Will installs that have not changed /root/.profile automatically get the updated file, or do they need to manually change it? Apparently in older versions the mesg call looked like this: | tty -s && mesg n || true Which now writes an error about mesg not existing. For this part I'll update the NEWS.Debian entry in util-linux (#1088009). Chris
