William Jensen wrote: > Greetings, > > When you issue the reboot command the system does a system wide message > saying the machine is rebooting NOW. How would I send a message to all > the people that are on the system? I assume this would need to be done > as root?
you want 'wall' either wall [file], echo message | wall, or wall and then type your message and then ctrl-d A user can wall to anyone that doesn't deny messages(mesg n). As you can guess this could be annoying/abused =) Especially when combined with figlet... mike
