As a business continuity communications measure, we've been asked to look into the possibility of raising an emergency message on a user's session in *nix. For example,
"Wildfire is approaching the local campus. Employees are asked to evacuate in an orderly manner" I know that some distros have mechanisms that can be exploited positively for this purpose (e.g., puplet) and I vaguely remember a program called xdialog from many years ago. Basicaly, I'd like to be on an administrative machine and issue the request for a pop up to be launched on the user's console. I don't want to issue xhost commands and prefer to avoid new daemons. The primary targets are Solaris and Linux workstations. This doesn't have to be a 100% solution but I would like to cover the majority cases on Solaris and Linux. I've looked into it and have crafted a proof of concept on Linux using xmessage. I launch a script that looks to see who owns the console and issue xmessage as that user. This works well for the primary case of a plain vanilla user logged in at the console. I haven't begun to address more exotic consoles (e.g., via XDMCP or Graphon's GoGlobal). Before I continue further, does anyone believe there is a simpler solution? If not, should I compile xmessage for Solaris or is there a prebuilt equivalent program for Solaris that is already part of the Solaris distribution. Our Solaris boxen are primarily 9 and 10, and at least the 9 boxen do not have xmessage, zenity, kdialog, or gdialog on them. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
