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 that. There's also talk to tap others on the shoulder. I assume all these will work if logged onto a server via ssh? > > 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 log out (something > > like the net send command on MS Windows running with the messenger > > service). > > I could give a long explanation on why in practice this never works > (even for wall msgs), but it's not interesting. Instead I'll give you > some real-world examples of what I've seen. [snip...] Thank you for a very informative insight. :) -- Regards, Mick
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