Gene Heskett schrieb: > On Tuesday 09 September 2008, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: >> Gene Heskett schrieb: >>> On Tuesday 09 September 2008, Yan Seiner wrote: >>>> How do I go about notifying all users? I am looking for an equivalent >>>> of 'wall' for X. xmessage doesn't really work very well as I'd have to >>>> mess with xhost in each user's profile. >>>> >>>> I've looked at libnotify, but it runs into dbus security issues. >>>> >>>> So how does a sysadmin notify all users of an impending system event >>>> (like a shutdown)? >>> What is wrong with just using wall? >> Does "wall" display anything for users running X? No. > > How did you disable that? Here it echo's to every open shell and opens a > message window on windows without open shells on them.
Do you really think every Joe and Mary has a shell window opened? -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg