cliff@motcsd.csd.mot.com (Cliff Rodriguez) (11/14/90)
We have noticed that /etc/wall is not really a solution in an X environment.
Serveral times the machine has been brought down with warning messages sent
out but the X user was unaware and very unhappy. If you are in an application
that is not making use of a tty (xterm) then you won't see any messages.
Has anyone seen or have some ideas about some kind of messaging service in
X/motif that a systems admin can send out?
i.e.
system admin: the system is going down in 2 minutes .....
the user: screen flashes, an icon blinks , or maybe something goes beep.
Maybe this could be like a virtual console where there is a severity level
in messages you can get. If you see a the icon flashing maybe you would
check it (or it flashes the background or something)......cliff
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