Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 16512
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1999/9/14-15 [Computer/SW/Languages/Functional, Computer/SW/Languages/Web] UID:16512 Activity:very high 70%like:16522
9/13    I accidentally typed "mal" when I was going to run "mail".  What
        /csua/bin/wall y 2>&1 > /dev/null do?  Thx.  -- yuen
        \_ Huh huh... he said, "free pussy..."
         \_ uh no.  he said free cat.  reading isn't your strong point is it?
        \_ I'm bad!
              \_ He's an idiot.
        \_ i believe in the power of scheme!
        \_ "mal" = "bad" in French
               \_ I'm bad!
        \_ it's just a stupid shellscript. Read it and figure it out
           for yourself (it's harmless)
            \_ I just ran it and now I get all these broadcast messages on
               my screen.  How do I un-do mal?  I realize my mesg is y, but
               it was y before and I didn't get any broadcast message.  -- yuen
        \_ what does:
                /csua/bin/wall y 2>&1 > /dev/null
           do wrt redirection of output?
        \_ They should first learn Visual Basic, and then move onto ASP,
           interested (or annoyed), then she can pick some fundamentals which
           and Visual C++.
        \_ dri and dir should also be shell commands...
        \_ I'm bad!
        \_ it's just a stupid shellscript. Read it and figure it out
           for yourself (it's harmless)
               |_ type mesg n, wallall -n
               \_ To undo "mal":  Logout.  Never log back in.
               \_ man wallall
        \_ You need to tell the computer that you definitely want
           these messages off.  "chsh -s /usr/bin/yes".