We want to send messages to the users when we need to shut the system
down. We tried MESSAGE from Universe, but it displayed the message at
the cursor position and doesn't refresh the screen. We've turned off
UNIX messages because the users were getting all kinds of messages that
were doing
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We want to send messages to the users when we need to shut the system
down. We tried MESSAGE from Universe, but it displayed
Unix has the wall command to send a message to all terminals - but - I
don't think you can position/format the message (and it's been many
years since I used it).
Mark
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HTH
Rod Hills
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We want to send messages to the users when we need to shut
I know you said you've turned off unix messages, but we use a scripted
'wall' command. You can't specify where it shows up on the screen, but it's
always in the bottom few lines. depending on how long the message text is.
Brad Schrag
InfoLease Development
651-205-3074
RiverBank / EP-MN-BGF
The
If you are on a *NIX environment, you can use the write all command.
Logged on as root, it will send a message to any session. The down side is
that it is not very pretty ... but it does get the message through.
syntax: write all cr
text
text
ctlD
-or-
write all /text_in_file.da
HTH
Robert
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We use SecureCrt as a terminal emulator (VT100).
You could try
