On Sat, 2002-06-15 at 04:53, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 01:55:39AM -0700, nate wrote: > > <quote who="Ron Johnson"> > > > Using "apt-cache search" doesn't show much. (Unless I'm using > > > the wrong keyword to search by!) > > > > > > while i am not certain what your end goal is, rpc.walld is > > a cool program, it won't do a popup(as far as i know) but it can > > broadcast a message out to connected servers on a network. i > > didn't even know it existed until i saw it in action on one of my > > sun boxes, a NFS server broadcasted to the clients that it was > > shutting down. pretty neat (to me). > > > > i am not sure how(or if) to send a message using it .. > > I think xmessage will work over a network via the -display option. > Course, you need permission to connect to the remote X server... > > Missed the original post, so not sure if that's what your looking > for...
I'll check out both rpc.walld. Unfortunately, I don't see a -display option to xmessage. Otherwise, it looks perfect... -- +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | | "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty: power is ever | | stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular | | liberty must be gathered each day, or it is rotten... The | | hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human | | depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the | | people. Only by continual oversight can the democrat in | | office be prevented from hardening into a despot: only by | | unintermitted agitation can a people be kept sufficiently | | awake to principle not to let liberty be smothered in | | material prosperity... Never look, for an age when the | | people can be quiet and safe. At such times despotism, | | like a shrouding mist, steals over the mirror of Freedom" | | Wendell Phillips | +-------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
