On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Jack Malone wrote: jm> I'm wondering if its possible to send message to ftp user. for when im jm> talking the box down ect. thanks. jm> You can do this with the shutdown command itself, by doing something like the following shutdown -r [time in future] [message] ie: shutdown -r 14:00 Sorry, need to reboot. shutdown -r +10 this is what would be shown with, and without a message being used <with> daydream:~ # shutdown -k +10 Broadcast message from root (pts/2) Sat Feb 9 10:05:55 2002... The system is going DOWN to maintenance mode in 10 minutes !! <without> daydream:~ # shutdown -k +10 this goes to all users Broadcast message from root (pts/2) Sat Feb 9 10:07:58 2002... this goes to all users The system is going DOWN to maintenance mode in 10 minutes !! Note: in the above examples, -k doesn't do an actual shutdown, only sends message(s) to user(s). jm> Jack Malone jm> jack@malone.tyler.com jm> http://www.ballistic.com/~jemalone jm> jm> -- S.Toms - smotrs@mindspring.com - www.mindspring.com/~smotrs SuSE Linux v6.3 - Kernel 2.2.14 A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. -- William James