[Techtalk] remote user notifications

[Conor Daly]

On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 06:41:11PM -0500 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Brenda Bell thought:
> On Thu, 1 Jan 2004 14:58:45 -0800
> Carla Schroder wrote:
> 
> > Today's 'stump the gurus' question: what can you do for remote users who are 
> > running X, like Gnome or KDE or some such, and who won't see console 
> > messages? Especially shutdown or reboot messages? Or other vitally important 
> > broadcasts from the local friendly BOFH? 
> 
> If you're running a Windoze or SMB domain, I believe the Windows
> "net send" command would guarantee a pop-up on all networked
> workstations.

Then again, xmessage does all that natively, sort of...

Conor
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