On Monday 24 February 2003 10:41 am, James Oakley wrote:
On Saturday 22 February 2003 05:35 pm, David Herman wrote:
I'm messing around w/ cron and wanted to try to create a popup requester. ------------snip------------- echo "Your message here" | write <username>
Kwrited will pop up a window with the message.
Make sure that the user has "mesg y" set in their profile.
Thanks for your reply James, unfortunately I'm still having problems ;-( I tried putting mesg y in my .profile, I logout then back in then try echo "Your message here" | write dh1 nothing happens. If itype mesg y into a shell and then try echo "Your message here" | write <username> a new shell window is opened, with the desired output Unless there is a shell already open, then the output is directed there. My problem then seems to be that the "mesg y" command is not being read from my .profile, (and I don't fully know how to do this...) and how to get a new shell opened in every case by the write command. I'd actually prefer a non interactive window as found in kcontrolcenter --> System Notifications --> (more options) show a message... Thanks again for your help -- dh Don't shop at GoogleGear.com!