/etc/orville.conf is in orville-write 2.55-3build1.
This file is owned by root:root, with mode 0o644.
The actual contents of the file can be viewed below.
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# Wrttmp File - Location of the file where all current user's write settings
# are kept. If not defined, this defaults to being named 'wrttmp' and located
# in /var/lib/orville-write
# wrttmp /etc/wrttmp
# Wrthist File - Location of file where records of recent telgrams are saved.
# are kept. If not defined, this defaults to being named 'wrthist' and
# located in /var/lib/orville-write.
# wrthist /etc/wrthist
# Novice Help - If it is defined and exists, then contents of this file are
# printed when help starts up if they have the NOVICE environment variable set.
# novicehelp /usr/local/share/write.help
# ===== LOGGING =====
# Log file - Keeps a record of who wrote whom, whether the connection worked,
# and what went wrong if it didn't. If loglevel is 0, or is not defined, or
# the file does not exist, then no log is kept.
log /var/log/write.log
# Log Level - How much shall we log? Value should be:
# 0 - nothing.
# 1 - help requests only (good for monitoring how your help is doing)
# 2 - all writes attempts.
loglevel 1
# ===== OPTIONS =====
# Disconnect flag - Set to 'y' if you want people to be able to disconnect
# all write sessions currently directed at them with 'mesg d' or 'mesg N'.
# Default is 'y'.
# disconnect y
# Exceptions flag - Set to 'y' if you want people to be able to turn messages
# on or off with the exception of a list of users named in the .nowrite or
# .yeswrite files. Default is 'y'.
# exceptions y
# Helpers flag - Set to 'y' if you want 'write help' to connect people to a
# helper. Default is 'n'
# helpers n
# Time to Answer Telegrams - After you send a telegram to a person, there
# is a period of time during which that person may reply, even if your
# permissions are off. The answertel command sets the length of that period
# in seconds. Default is 240 seconds (4 minutes).
# answertel 300
# Hostname on Message Banners - Many versions of write send banners like
# "Message from user@hostname". This is nice if the recipient is in a telnet
# connection to another Unix system, so the writes could be coming from either
# of two systems. It defaults off because I have an irrational dislike for it.
# fromhost n
# Allow Piped Input - If 'pipes' is turned off, then standard input to write
# must be a tty, not a pipe, and the '|' and '&' escapes are disabled. It
# is useful if you have cretinous users who like sending large globs of data
# to other users.
# pipes y
# ===== HELPERS =====
# Helper name - If instead of writing 'help' you'd like people to write to
# some other name to get help, set that name here. Default is 'help'.
# helpername help
# Helpers file - If this is defined, and the file exists, then only people
# named in this file can do 'mesg -h' and become helpers. If not, anyone can
# designate themselves to be a helper. Just list one login id per line in
# the file.
# helperlist /usr/local/etc/helplist
# No Helper file - Contains a message to print when a person does 'write help'
# but no helpers are found. Usually a description of alternate places to get
# help. If not defined, no message is printed.
# nohelp /usr/local/share/write.nohelp
# ===== LINKS =====
# Default options for various links to the Orville write program
options ojot -c
options otel -t
options telegram -t
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