Hi folks,

I have a network which contains 4 linux machines and 1 Win XP machine.
From a bash script that checks on the tape drive attached to one of the Linux machines I use smbclient to create a popup message on the windows machine if a problem is found. This uses the built-in alerter and messenger programs of Windows. It does exactly what I need.

I need to find a way to popup a message on one of the Linux machines at the same time.
What is a good app to do this?

Thanks.

You might want to look at
http://www.littleigloo.org/software_002.php3

Or plain old xmessage for that matter ;) if it doesn't
need to use Samba ...

Cheers,
Tink

Thanks Tinkster, but LinPopup doesn't seem to have any command line functionality which I would need for my script.

I tested it and it looked good though.

Search these forums, we've been through this recently.

Håkan

I have searched.
Xmessage and Linpopup are suggested, but neither fulfill my needs 100%.
If you find a post that you think answers my question, then please point me to it.

Thanks.

I don't see why you'd need "command-line
functionality" ... you run LinPopup on the
boxes that aren't the server, and just use
smbclient to send a message to those,
just as you would to the XP machine?

Cheers,
Tink

hi

i am using a ltsp(linux terminal server) setup where all clients are logged on to my server
i cannot use linpop here

pl. tellme what will be better

Hi there masand!

I ended up using xmessage to do my popup work for me.

xmesage -display mymachine:0 Just a test

That line will popup an xmessage on the machine named "mymachine" on display :0 that reads "Just a test".

For this to work, you need to make sure that display :0 will allow remote X Connections.

xhost + will do this but that is very insecure.

Use an /etc/X0.hosts file instead and list the names of machines allowed to connect to X remotely. The 0 (zero) in the file allows connections to display 0.

....Just thinking here.........

You're situation is different as you are using ltsp and dumb terminals I assume. Therefore all of your messages are really being sent within one machine to different users, the ltsp server. Or do your thin clients actually run an X server? I haven't done any ltsp stuff.

Also if you are using a more recent Linux distro, you might want to look at gmessage or kmessage.

Hope that helps.
Let me know how you make out.

hi there
thanks for replying

well i recently got the xhost thing workin......

i will try the new method u r talkin about

also in ltsp

each users get a different ip address also a different X server runs on it

thanx again...

try ksalup.sourceforge.net !. it works forme !

off topic, but how do you like the LTS, im looking for something simular to that for my office. i currently run a win2k domain so i can use TS to access Quickbooks, but ive been looking at one of the wine projects to convert over to 100% *nix.

if i could maintain the secuirty of a TS were my program resides on a secure server only allowing access to QB and printing functions that would be ideal.