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I would like to broadcast a messsage to all user's on any terminal's.
I've looked into 'talk' and 'write', I was looking for something similar the way shutdown work's: 'shutdown -r now "The system is going for a reboot"'
Any advise on a way to accomplish this goal of mine?
Originally posted by Azmeen I thought you can straight away wall on the command line...
ie: wall Hey you people!!!
This does not work on my system, wall need's a file, by default it supposed to read from 'stdin', but this does not work, i'm sure there's a way to redirect or something....
2) You didn't even get the command right! You'd end up getting a "Please log off now" command not found, doing that!
Not exactly an auspicious first post.
Gee wiz dude! I am glad that fellow actually posted that. With quotation marks it almost works; but I haven't seen anyone post a good answer yet. Is this an unauspicious first post too? And, the essential CLI should still apply even 7 years later, no?
Gee wiz dude! I am glad that fellow actually posted that. With quotation marks it almost works; but I haven't seen anyone post a good answer yet. Is this an unauspicious first post too? And, the essential CLI should still apply even 7 years later, no?
This works here:
Code:
wall -n "please log off now"
It even does a pop up in KDE4. One of those "notify" thingys. lol
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