Re: [cobalt-users] Admin terminal message

["Scott A. Hammond, Sr." <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can use the "wall" command to message all users, for example:

[root /root]# wall message goes here

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerald Young" <me@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 6:31 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Admin terminal message


>
> > > 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'
>
>
>
> > >
> > >
> > > Per M Knutsen
> > > http://nethut.no/~pknutsen
> > >
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> > Check out the wall command.
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