Informing other users

[Dieter Schicker]

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