Re: flash

[mouse () Collatz McRCIM McGill EDU (der Mouse)]

> > > If you are concerned about people sending bad things to your screen
> > > then you should also take a look at syslogd which allows anyone to
> > > send a message to all users logged in [...].
> > Why would you want to do that?  Then you would hose your session as
> > well, right?

You could protect yourself by telling your comm program to emulate a
Hazeltine or something else that doesn't understand the string you're
spewing at everyone.

You could also protect yourself by not having a session on the target
machine at the time.

> Any lamer that forgets to say 'mesg n' to protect himself before
> using syslogd to hose everybody, *deserves* to get hosed himself.

In my experience, syslog messages pay no attention to the mesg setting,
so mesg n wouldn't help at all.

                                        der Mouse

                            mouse () collatz mcrcim mcgill edu