Broadcast messages and X windows
Lee Fedor
fedor at dsg.csc.ti.com
Wed Feb 14 06:39:26 AEST 1990
I asked.....
>>And while we are on the subject of bothersome questions,
>>is there an easy way to disable shutdown messages from
>>popping up in all of the windows that you have open? We
>>are running 4.0.3 on sparc systems and running X11R3.
>>mesg n does not shut off the messages about a system going
>>down. Is that because root can always overwrite? It seems
>>that there should be someway that you could direct those
>>messages to come up in the console window only.
Faut C. Baran writes --<faut at columbia.edu>
|If you are logging in via xterm, there is a switch that says whether
|or not a utmp entry should be written. wall (shutdown does a wall)
|writes to all ttys that have logged in users on it (from info in
|/etc/utmp). Of course, if no utmp entry is written then you are
|"invisible" to programs like finger.
So using xterm -ut does accomplish what I was looking for and I have many
happy users. Many many thanks to Faut, and I hope others find this useful
also. Once again saved by the net!
Lee Fedor System Administrator
Texas Instruments
Austin, Texas
(512)250-7573 fedor at dsg.csc.ti.com
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