missing wall messages from apcupsd

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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – Fedora 17, Gnome 3.4.2, apcupsd-3.14.10-4.fc17.i686 I'm mystified as to why the wall messages from apcupsd don't appear on my terminal when other wall messages do. Permission is turned on: $ mesg is y If I start a second terminal and logon as root, then send a wall message (26 chars), the messages appears on my "normal user" terminal and the "root" terminal. (03:15:52 in messages below) If I then unplug the usb cable to my ups, apcupsd logs the "problem" and sends a wall message (58 chars), but this does NOT appear on either my "normal user&quo (HowTos)