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to send messages to another user simply type write username then you can type your message and ctrl+c sends it.

to find out which users are logged in type users

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In addition to write, there's a more interactive, Instant Messaging (IM) style of GNU-Linux communication: talk.

talk username

Note: it will not cause any dock icon to bounce or taskbar button to flash when someone responds to you!

warning: locate: warning: database /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db' is more than 8 days old

"locate" uses a database, slocate.db, of filesystem and directory information. It should be updated daily by a cron job. This message means that it isn't updating for some reason.

Check in /etc/cron.daily/ for slocate.cron and make sure it is executable and all that.

cd /etc/cron.daily
ls -l

keywords: sudo access sudoize user

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