Hi,
I'm currently installing a CentOS 5 desktop as a public internet access
point. The machine shuts down every day automatically at 22:30. Is there
a way I can display a message in GNOME at 22:15 warning the user that
the machine will shutdown in 15 minutes ?
Any suggestions ?
Niki Kovacs
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On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 21:47 +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Is there
> a way I can display a message in GNOME at 22:15 warning the user that
> the machine will shutdown in 15 minutes ?
kalarm
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> Hi,
>
> I'm currently installing a CentOS 5 desktop as a public internet access
> point. The machine shuts down every day automatically at 22:30. Is there
> a way I can display a message in GNOME at 22:15 warning the user that
> the machine will shutdown in 15 minutes ?
>
> Any suggestions ?
>
cr
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 14:57 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 21:47 +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote:
> > Is there
> > a way I can display a message in GNOME at 22:15 warning the user that
> > the machine will shutdown in 15 minutes ?
>
> kalarm
On second thought, a bash file calling zen
Hi
Not sure but I seem to remember the old write command it could to the
trick.
Regards
Per
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 21:47 +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently installing a CentOS 5 desktop as a public internet access
> point. The machine shuts down every day automatically at 22:30. I
On 2/2/2010 3:03 PM, Per Qvindesland wrote:
> Hi
>
> Not sure but I seem to remember the old write command it could to the
> trick.
>
write or wall will work with open terminal windows - but shutdown offers
the option to send such a message itself with a grace period before the
actual shutdown.
xmessage is another option. I use it from time to time. It would need
minimal dependencies if that is a consideration.
-geoff
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Geoff Galitz
Blankenheim NRW, Germany
http://www.galitz.org/
http://german-way.com/blog/
> >
> > I'm currently installing a CentOS 5
cron and xmessage.
Jobst
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 09:47:20PM +0100, Niki Kovacs (cont...@kikinovak.net)
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently installing a CentOS 5 desktop as a public internet access
> point. The machine shuts down every day automatically at 22:30. Is there
> a way I can display
At Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:47:20 +0100 CentOS mailing list
wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently installing a CentOS 5 desktop as a public internet access
> point. The machine shuts down every day automatically at 22:30. Is there
> a way I can display a message in GNOME at 22:15 warning the user that
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 18:30 -0500, Robert Heller wrote:
> I believe the shutdown command automagically generates warning. I
> would
> *guess* that GNOME would have some applet that monitors these sorts of
> warnings and creates popups.
I haven't seen one, unless the user happens to have a gnome-
That's only on terminals (tty's, xterm, console) OR if you have xconsole open.
jobst
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 06:30:15PM -0500, Robert Heller (hel...@deepsoft.com)
wrote:
> At Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:47:20 +0100 CentOS mailing list
> wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm currently installing a Cent
Frank Cox a écrit :
>
> On second thought, a bash file calling zenity in a cronjob will be
> better. You can have zenity show any message you want in a window on
> the desktop and the only option available in that window can be "ok".
> kalarm would allow the user to change the alarm, and that's n
> 3) But when I add it to crontab like this :
>
> # crontab -e
>
> 15 22 * * * /usr/local/sbin/warning.sh
>
> ... nothing happens at the given time (10:15 PM).
>
> Any idea what's wrong here?
Any errors from a cron run go to your root mailbox (or whatever user's
crontab it is, when applicable
Geoff Galitz a écrit :
> Any errors from a cron run go to your root mailbox (or whatever user's
> crontab it is, when applicable). Check your root mailbox for an error, I'm
> assuming the PATH to zenity is not set correctly. That is the usual culprit
> in a case like this.
>
No mail for root.
> Geoff Galitz a écrit :
>
>> Any errors from a cron run go to your root mailbox (or whatever user's
>> crontab it is, when applicable). Check your root mailbox for an error,
>> I'm assuming the PATH to zenity is not set correctly. That is the usual
>> culprit in a case like this.
>>
> No mail fo
m.r...@5-cent.us a écrit :
>
> I assume you've checked /var/log/cron, to make sure it ran.
Yes, it looks so.
>
> On further thought, here's a nasty one: on that line, echo $PATH. I wonder
> if you need all the X paths, and maybe LD_LIBRARY_PATH set, for zenity to
> run.
>
I think I do grasp i
m.r...@5-cent.us a écrit :
>
> I assume you've checked /var/log/cron, to make sure it ran.
>
I think the problem boils down to this :
"How can I run a graphical application from crontab ?"
I gave it a shot with a simple one (/usr/bin/gcalctool) and didn't
succeed either.
Phew, how I hate
> I think the problem boils down to this :
>
> "How can I run a graphical application from crontab ?"
>
> I gave it a shot with a simple one (/usr/bin/gcalctool) and didn't
> succeed either.
>
I think if you did something like this:
--
#!/bin/sh
# set DISPLAY
export DISPLAY="local
You wrote:
> m.r...@5-cent.us a écrit :
>>
>> On further thought, here's a nasty one: on that line, echo $PATH. I
>> wonder if you need all the X paths, and maybe LD_LIBRARY_PATH set, for
>> zenity to run.
>>
> I think I do grasp in theory what you suggest, but I wouldn't know how
> to get it into
On Thu, February 4, 2010 11:26 am, Geoff Galitz wrote:
>
>> I think the problem boils down to this :
>>
>> "How can I run a graphical application from crontab ?"
>>
>> I gave it a shot with a simple one (/usr/bin/gcalctool) and didn't
>> succeed either.
>>
>
>
>
> I think if you did something like
I'm really grateful for all the responses. But could someone please just
simply write down a *working* crontab line for this ?
Thanks,
Niki
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On Thu, February 4, 2010 12:07 pm, Niki Kovacs wrote:
> I'm really grateful for all the responses. But could someone please just
> simply write down a *working* crontab line for this ?
*If* the issue has to do with one user trying to display the message on a
desktop owned by another user, that mig
Marko A. Jennings a écrit :
>
> Since the crontab entry I posted earlier works for me, I would concentrate
> on trying to determine why exactly yours is failing.
Oooops. According to Murphy's law, your initial message is the only one
I had been overlooking... and it's also a *working* example
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 18:45 +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote:
> The solution being simply to define the cronjob for the user... since
> there's only one on the machine :o)
You may want to beautify it a bit and have the script check to see if
the user is actually logged in before trying to bring up the m
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