Console message - how do I create one?
 

I've got a crontab job which will should alert me if a process fails.

How can I create a stonking great console message that will flash up in front of all other windows on my workstation when things go belly up?

Dave

You are probably looking for something like 'wall' check out 'man wall' for more info. I'm not all that familiar with it otherwise I'd give you an example ;)

Cool

wall seems to do the trick.

When an error occurs, I pipe the error message to a file, then call wall <filename> as root. This broadcasts to all users on the box (i.e. me!)

Thanks for that.

Dave

You're welcome, glad it works ;)

Cool