wall command

[sriman]

hi
when i broadcast the message to all using wall command, the users are getting the message only if the terminal is opend in CDE.other wise no message is displaying on the screen.is there any method to pop up a window and display the broadcasted message

[Arch_Muthiah]

Sriman,

Have you tried wall -c, because wall can send the message to only members of the specific cluster.

what is the other term emulation s/w you use in your env?


Archunan

[Steven Schweda]

"wall" dates back to the days when everyone
used a terminal, so a message sent to all
the terminals was sent to all the users.

I've never heard of a program which would do
what you would like, but that doesn't prove
much. I suppose that one could write a
daemon which would listen on some IP port,
and which, when it got a suitable message
(from a reliable/trusted source), would
throw a pop-up window onto the display. It
sounds like a lot of work to get everything
to work right. (Who can send a message?
How to check the sender? Who owns the
display? ...)