#1125684 bsdutils: wall(1) man page contains obsolete information

Package:
bsdutils
Source:
bsdutils
Description:
basic utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite
Submitter:
Vincent Lefevre
Date:
2026-01-15 23:31:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1125684#5
Date:
2026-01-15 23:29:21 UTC
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The wall(1) man page mentions utmp, which no longer exists in Debian.
It also has

SEE ALSO
       mesg(1), talk(1), write(1), shutdown(8)

but the mesg, talk and write commands and their man page in Section 1
have been removed. So one should just have

SEE ALSO
       shutdown(8)