Re: [gentoo-user] Sending console messages on Users

2007-06-01 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 28 May 2007 20:54:27 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 28 May 2007 20:14, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 18:52 +0100, Mick wrote: What is the way to send a console warning to anyone logged on a machine before I reboot it? shutdown(8) does this for

[gentoo-user] Sending console messages on Users

2007-05-28 Thread Mick
Hi All, What is the way to send a console warning to anyone logged on a machine before I reboot it? If the user is logged on a console I will only need to send it to the console; in addition if the user is running webmin, or phpadmin, then I would really like a popup of sorts to alert them to

Re: [gentoo-user] Sending console messages on Users

2007-05-28 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 18:52 +0100, Mick wrote: Hi All, What is the way to send a console warning to anyone logged on a machine before I reboot it? shutdown(8) does this for you. In addition there is wall(1). If the user is logged on a console I will only need to send it to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Sending console messages on Users

2007-05-28 Thread Mick
On Monday 28 May 2007 20:14, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 18:52 +0100, Mick wrote: What is the way to send a console warning to anyone logged on a machine before I reboot it? shutdown(8) does this for you. In addition there is wall(1). Of course wall! I had forgotten about