Notify all users

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

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?


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