Informing other users

[Scott]

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> Scott wrote:
>> ", "Dieter Schicker spake thusy);:
>>   
>>> Peter Garrett wrote:
>>>     
>>>> On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:54:04 +0200
>>>> Dieter Schicker <dieter.schicker at uni-graz.at> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I already asked this question several weeks ago but didn't get an
>>>>> answer. So I try again:
>>>>>
>>>>> In my network I want to be able to send small informative messages to
>>>>> the users that are currently logged in. I want it that way that a popup
>>>>> window appears on the users screen which shows the message. I heard
>>>>> about linpopup, but it requires samba and I'm not willing to install
>>>>> samba on each workstation.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>>     
>>>>>         
>>>> Well, this works with ssh:
>>>>
>>>> ssh user at host xmessage -display :0 "Free Pizza upstairs in 5 minutes"
>>>>
>>>> It isn't very pretty, of course - you could probably use xdialog or zenity
>>>> to do something similar. 
>>>>
>>>> Peter
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>> Thanks, works great!
>>>
>>> Dieter
>>>     
>> Heh. I learned something new today. I've never had an interest in such a
>> thing, but now I can't wait to setup my other box (my previous one
>> that's that's been collecting dust for 21 months) just to try this out.
>>
>> Sad eh? ;-)
>>
>>
>>   
> No, not sad, but funny! Now I can REALLY annoy my users. ;-)
> 

Actually I figured out how to send one to myself on my own box.


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