[Techtalk] remote user notifications

[Telsa Gwynne]

On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 11:08:47AM -0800 or thereabouts, Akkana Peck wrote:
> Carla writes:
> > 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? 
>
> How about something like this, to pop up a dialog on each
> remote display? 
> 
> for machine in $(cat listofmachines`) ; do
>   export DISPLAY=$machine:0
> # zenity apparently replaces gdialog, use whichever is appropriate:
> # gdialog --msgbox 'Hey you!' 200 100
>   zenity --info --text='Hey you!'
> done

Zenity! I am such an idiot. Of course. 

Telsa