On Fri, 16 Oct 2026 10:44:04 +0900, John Crawley rote: > On 15/10/2026 20:35, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> Does the wall(1) command work for you? It doesn't for me, and this >> is probably related to the discontinuation of the utmp/wtmp files >> in Trixie. >> https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/release-notes/issues.en.html#the-last-lastb-and-lastlog-commands-have-been-replaced >> At least, that's my guess. > >On Trixie, this command in a terminal emulator on TTY7: >sudo wall "Test Message" >results in the message being displayed on TTY2 - if I am already logged in there. >There are no other users on this machine to test. > >I have wtmpdb installed, but not lastlog2
Unfortunately "wall" does not work via SSH, here. All my debian systems are remote systems, which should be a valid use case. I would assume, "wall" works between the local TTYs. The bugreports from my initial post are all complaining about "wall"-problems and give a change in systemd as the cause for those problems. Systemd might just say: "your problem". But in this case, it killed it's own function. Well - maybe just for those working via SSH. :( This one is pretty interesting: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1075733 It claimed systemd fails some tests regarding wall, Debian excluded from their own test-suite. Should I report this directly to the maintainers or check the behavior on testing/unstable first? Still unsure.
