On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The wife uses one computer, I use another. We are both connected to > the internet via a router, as such we can SSH into one another's > boxen. Is there a way to pop up a message on the wife's machine, by > SSHing in and having root access. We both use KDE 3.x if it matters. I > notice that when I shutdown her machine remotely, she gets a popup > message stating that the computer is going down, so I see that the > basic infrastructure of having root pop up messages to users is in > place.
Does 'sudo wall' work for you? I don't have a machine handy to try - but it used to pop up in X too IIRC Sends it to everybody - but if it's a one user box... Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]