Another reason was I was going to get the email addresses of everyone having a process running on my machines and send them all emails of the wall messages as well. Doesn't shutdown typically send a wall message? It is messages like these that I would like to get emails to all my users. My machines are connected to Active Directory so I can use ldapsearch to get their email addresses. On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 9:14 AM, Jeff Sadowski <jeff.sadowski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > One of the reasons I added this request: > > My default desktop is XFCE and it uses gnome-terminals. I don't get > wall messages in gnome-terminals and I wanted a simple way to get wall > messages to my screen I was thinking about using notify-send > > On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 4:53 AM, Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 02:06:25PM -0600, Jeff Sadowski wrote: >>> I would like to know if this feature is built into wall or is there a >>> good work around? >> >> wall is usually used by superuser. I guess if you can all "wall" than >> you can also call for example logger to write to the system logs. I >> don't see reason to merge functionally of these tools together. >> >>> I would like to configure wall to run a script after anything is posted to wall. >> >> Why? Maybe there is better way go get your goal. >> >>> I would also like to log all wall messages. I could easily do that >>> with a script. >> >> yes, script(1) is the right way >> >> Karel >> >> >> -- >> Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> >> http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
