Is there a Wall message for GNOME or KDE

[Leslie S Satenstein]

I would like to send an alert about a system change or an alert to all gnome users that
the system is going offline for maintenance at a certain time. 

What is the equivalent to the wall function that pops up a window in kde or gnome with the
message in a window that must be acknowledged.

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Regards  
Mr. Leslie
 Leslie Satenstein

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[Kevin Kofler]

Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>  KDE, at least 3.5, acknowledges standard wall messages 
KDE 4 still does this, you get a notification from kwrited.

        Kevin Kofler

[Robert L Cochran]

I just used `shutdown -h +6 The system is going down now, please 
logoff.` as root, in a terminal window. It prints the message in the 
terminal window every minute, along with its own default message. But it 
will not cause a Gnome window to open up with the message.

I discovered that even if you close the terminal window, the shutdown 
will still take place at the scheduled time.

Bob


On 06/26/2009 01:44 PM, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>  On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Leslie
>  Satenstein<lsatenstein(a)yahoo.com>  wrote:
>     
> > I would like to send an alert about a system change or an alert to all gnome
> > users that the system is going offline for maintenance at a certain time.
> >
> > What is the equivalent to the wall function that pops up a window in kde or
> > gnome with the message in a window that must be acknowledged.
> >      
>
>  KDE, at least 3.5, acknowledges standard wall messages, though i was not forced.
>
>  But regular wall isn't forced either.
>
>  I am not sure any current OS has mandatory remotely sent messaging.
>
>

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Leslie
Satenstein<lsatenstein(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>  I would like to send an alert about a system change or an alert to
> all gnome
>  users that the system is going offline for maintenance at a certain time.
>
>  What is the equivalent to the wall function that pops up a window in kde or
>  gnome with the message in a window that must be acknowledged. 
KDE, at least 3.5, acknowledges standard wall messages, though i was not forced.

But regular wall isn't forced either.

I am not sure any current OS has mandatory remotely sent messaging.

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