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Re: [PLUG] shutdown/terminal question
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- From: "Brent Saner" <brent.saner@gmail.com>
- To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
- Subject: Re: [PLUG] shutdown/terminal question
- Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2007 02:29:52 -0400
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hmm...that's kind of an ugly hack...
you'd think it'd be part of desktop manager API to include a display for system messages, right? or hell, even wall messages and the like...
i usually am not prone to keep a terminal window open when in a desktop, so it'd be nice to know about disk failures, notices from admins, et. al.
of course, i can think of disadvantages as well, i suppose... security'd be something you'd need to hack around for a bit, as the above feature could open up a good amount of holes.
and other less-malicious-but-still-annoying problems like dialog-spamming, etc....
On 9/9/07, Geoff Rivell <grivell@comcast.net> wrote:
On Sunday 09 September 2007, Brent Saner wrote:
> hey everyone. quick question. i asked this on ##linux (freenode), but
> nobody answered.
>
> if you do a shutdown -r +5 'Going down for reboot' ..... does that display
> the message in some sort of dialog box in desktop managers i.e. kde, gnome?
> or only print it to terminals/terminal emu's?
Should only print it to terminal.
You can use kdialog. You would have to make sure the display is set to :1 (or
whatever port X is running on. And probably copy $HOME/.Xauthority to /root
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