Informing other users

[Peter Garrett]

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