Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 22:30:22 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Jason Halbert" <jason@jason-n3xt.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System Announcement Message-ID: <15026.59486.994191.219290@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <106592414@toto.iv>
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Jason Halbert <jason@jason-n3xt.org> types: > Hello: > Is there a way of making a system announcement? I need one that users > will get when they log in and then again occasionally while they are > logged in. I need to announce system restarts and such. To pull the answers into one place, and add a bit: /etc/motd is displayed to all user who haven't disabled it on login. If you've got a recent system, you can use the if field of /etc/gettytab to to provide a bit finer control, though I've not played with it. For announcements to everyone currently logged in, use wall. For system restarts, the shutdown command does everything you want. You can schedule the shutdown for a specific time, and provide a message to be sent to everyone with at various intervals until the shutdown time arrives. Try "shutdown -k +30 Quake is to slow." to see it in action without actually shutting down the system. Read the man pages for shutdown, wall, and motd for more information. The man page for gettytab doesn't really provide more information about /etc/issue :-(. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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