How to broadcast message to all users

Wed May 31 17:32:26 UTC 2006

On Mon, 2006-29-05 at 20:34 +0100, Leon wrote:
> > How can the system administrator notify all users include those use
> > gui only about an event? I have been thinking combining 'wall' and
> > 'notify-send' but can't figure out how to send to all gnome and kde
> > users? Any ideas?

You can give xmessage a try.  It'll work in Gnome and KDE.

Use Google to find some example scripts - there must be tons of them.

Regards,

Ranbir

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Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
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