I'm just an admin not a real programmer but I've created a reboot script for several machines in a cluster. The script gets executed by a user at the master node. It works fine but I'd like to give him some output on the screen so he knows whats going on. The only way he will know is if he has a console open and this is not always the case. Is there a simple way to incorporate a GTK pop up window into my bash script indicating the action he took? Right now he just clicks an icon on the gnome desktop and waits. Here is my script:

for i in `cat /opt/local/app/hosts`; do
`ssh $i sudo /sbin/poweroff`
done

Hi,

I dont know but if you have KDE environment... U can fire kdialog like commands from command prompt which actually shows you the dialog...
You can try adding such commands in your script..
lemme know if it worked or how did u solve it..

Thanks,

thanks. I found something in gnome called zenity that does what I need it to. I tried gdialog and that led me to zenity.