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On Monday 28 May 2007 20:14, Albert Hopkins wrote: |
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> On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 18:52 +0100, Mick wrote: |
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> > What is the way to send a console warning to anyone logged on a machine |
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> > before I reboot it? |
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> shutdown(8) does this for you. In addition there is wall(1). |
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Of course wall! I had forgotten about that. There's also talk to tap others |
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on the shoulder. I assume all these will work if logged onto a server via |
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ssh? |
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> > If the user is logged on a console I will only need to send it to the |
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> > console; in addition if the user is running webmin, or phpadmin, then I |
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> > would really like a popup of sorts to alert them to log out (something |
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> > like the net send command on MS Windows running with the messenger |
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> > service). |
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> I could give a long explanation on why in practice this never works |
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> (even for wall msgs), but it's not interesting. Instead I'll give you |
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> some real-world examples of what I've seen. |
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[snip...] |
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Thank you for a very informative insight. :) |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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