Informing other users

[Dieter Schicker]

Scott wrote:
> ", "Dieter Schicker spake thusy);:
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>> Peter Garrett wrote:
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>>> On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:54:04 +0200
>>> Dieter Schicker <dieter.schicker at uni-graz.at> wrote:
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>>>       
>>>> 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
>>>
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>>>       
>> Thanks, works great!
>>
>> Dieter
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>
> 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? ;-)
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>
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No, not sad, but funny! Now I can REALLY annoy my users. ;-)