Hi Frinz,
I want to send some message to some of my friends who have logged in at that time.I am using "write" command to do this in my script but what happening is some of the id which I am sending message has been logged in at more than one places because of this the command next to this command is not executing.

Below are the command I am using:

Notification_List="id1 id2 id3"

for write_List in $Notification_List
do
write $write_List << Message
Just for test
Good Morning
Message
echo "Message has been sent"

when executing this command it is saying

id2 is logged on more than one place.
You are connected to "pts/2".
Other locations are:
pts/10

and waiting there without terminating after execution.

Can any one tell the reason for this and any way to solve this.

It will be great if any one help me in this regards.

- kmrs

try removing the space in '<< Message'

make it:

write $write_List <<Message

The problem is quite simple. As you mention you get the error:

It is telling you that id2 has two sessions open and the write command doesn't know which of the two to write to.

man write will tell you what to add to the write command to send it to a certain sessions (either pts/2 or pts/10 in your example.

Another way to solve it is to make sure you only have one session open....but I guess in this case you want 2 sessions to see the write....

write warns about multiple coonnections, but it will send to the first occurence in /etc/utmp.

Hi Frenz,

Thank you yar.

- kmrs