Package: bsdutils
Version: 1:2.20.1-1
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/bin/wall

$ echo echo o\|wall|batch
is guaranteed to earn the user an email

|Subject: Output from your job      126
|wall: cannot get tty name: Inappropriate ioctl for device

The man page should say how to 'prevent that error'.
$ echo 'echo o|wall;echo $?'|batch
Shows that it is not an error, as $?=0.
So one would think to use 2>&-, but that might suppress other errors
etc.

Anyway, the man page should mention this guaranteed problem.



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