Re: Posting a message on all desktops
Would shutdown -k work ?
On Sat, 2016-01-30 at 22:34 -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Jan 2016 18:59:13 -0500
> ken <gebser@mousecar.com> wrote:
>
> > > Is there a way for a system admin to post a message on the desktops of all the machines on a LAN ?
>
> > If all the desktops are just terminals (text), you could use "wall".
> > But they're probably not. (?)
>
> No, they are all GUI
>
> > You could put the desired announcement in /etc/motd and they would see
> > it when they log in.
>
> Need the post to appear immediately, not when they log in
>
> > But I'm going to guess everyone is running GUIs on their desktops and
> > you don't want to write code, so all I can think of-- and what we've
> > done at every place I've worked-- is just to send everyone an email.
>
> No good, since they will only get the message if/when they open their MUA.
>
> I was thinking of something like a gxmessage posted simultaneously on all the GUIs...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ron.
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