On 2008 Nov 18, at 17:17, unix_fan wrote: > 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.
Most Linux distributions have dbus, as does Solaris with the community software DVD installed. You should be able to use that. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] [EMAIL PROTECTED] electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH _______________________________________________ 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/
