On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 10:32 -0700, Trever L. Adams wrote: > > What do you all think? Is this possible (I am fairly sure it is)? Is it > a good thing... I think so? I think it's possible and good yes, the key thing though is to get it coded up. For the first you need either a system daemon that monitors the utmp/wtmp/lastlog/whatever-it-is or you need each user session to register somehow with a dbus-specific thing For the second you probably want a generic "list jobs that are running", "notify when jobs are complete" kind of interface and have cron, up2date, etc. use it. Havoc