On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 18:56, Panu Matilainen wrote: > I just had an incident - or almost had - which reminded me that AFAIK > there's no way to receive wall-messages on GNOME (or KDE) unless you > happen to have a terminal open. Developers probably always have a terminal > or a dozen open at any given time but the casual user might not and thus > simply miss a broadcast from root about system going down in 15min (for > example) which could be nasty. There's been a bug open about this for a while: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=114793 I wonder what has happened to the internal RFE that was mentioned -- Colin Charles, byte@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.bytebot.net/ "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi -- Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list