Re: [cobalt-users] Admin terminal message

[Gerald Young <me@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Slightly OT and very newbie, but how can I, as superuser, send messages to
> > the terminals of all logged-on users? (e.g. warning about reboots etc.)

dont think you can do through the gui?


but logged in as root
------- reboot with a message -------------
/sbin/shutdown -r now  rebooting get out
or
/sbin/shutdown -r 3  rebooting in 3 minutes

-r  will reboot
now or 3 (minutes for the timing of the reboot)
message following the time is echoed to all logged in terminals

if you want to send a message to a logged in user run
w to see whose logged in 

if fred is logged into pts/3 then

echo hi fred >>/dev/pts/3

will send a message to fred only. dont know how to echo to all users :(
b w g'



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> Check out the wall command.
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