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Old 02-12-2002
terminal display
I want to display a system warning message at the prompt of every live terminal on a sun solaris 8 machine using CDE.

I know this can be done on a console, but what about dtterm and xterm regular windows?

Does anyone know how this is done?



What about a single terminal?

Clear skies,
seismic_willy
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Old 02-12-2002
Check out the man page on wall. This will send a message to all users logged into the system.

To write to just one particular terminal you can use the write command.
thehoghunter
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Old 02-13-2002
Also, check out this thread:
https://www.unix.com/unix-for-dummies-questions-and-answers/4320-wall.html?s=

You can also search the forum for "wall", and find a few threads about this subject.
 
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