-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. >
Depends if they're running terminals on X ... every terminal, X or not (like KDE's konsole) will echo whatever you send via wall. I don't know what non-programmers susally do, do they usually need (as a minimum) a login terminal, or not? I would imagine they do, but I am just not certain about that. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkjGmaIACgkQz62J6PPcoOkBtgCgiCMPsjUqBU/4vXDjKotgB8jb HpEAoJfn5gdc3r2aNwrYRZ35iKYfTbif =5zWa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg