Informing other users

[Scott]

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> 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? ;-)