-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 yes, theres a shell variable that you may just read out, have a look with "set". also theres who, finger, w and prolly others.... Paul Keyes wrote: | Is there a way to determine who is loggeg in (maybe with 'who' | command) and sitting at the terminal, so that I can run the script | as them? | | --Paul --- Oliver Leitner <shadow333@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: | | easy answer: | | try to run your script as non root user, eg try sudo to run it. | | Greetings Oliver | | Paul Keyes wrote: | | | Thanks. This is helpful. I have a followup question: I want to | | schedule a zenity command via cron as root to have a window | appear | every 30 minutes for any user who may be loggeg in. When | trying | this I get the cron error: | | X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh> | X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root> X-Cron-Env: | <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin> | X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root> X-Cron-Env: | <USER=root> | | | | (zenity:6093): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: | | | Do you | know how to solve this? Thanks! | | | | | --- Esteban Xandri | <esteban.xandri@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | |> On Mon, 2005-08-22 at | 15:55 -0400, Paul Keyes wrote: |> |>> Hi All, |>> |>> I need to | create a pop-up window notice to all |> |> users |> |>> when they | log in to their gnome desktop. |> |> man zenity |> |> |>> I'm using | Fedora Core 3 (kernel: 2.6.10-2.1.ll.rhfc3.ccrma). |> |>> Does | gnome have a way to do this already? I couldn't find one |>> so I | created my own little app (c++, gtk) to display the info |>> in a | window and I |> |> run |> |>> it for all users by adding an | appropriate entry to |>> /usr/share/gnome/default.session This | almost works, but for |>> some reason the gnome startup display | stays open and blocks my |>> window. |> |> If I |> |>> click on the | "stuck" gnome startup display it dissapears and I |>> can see my | window. I think this little bug will confuse users. |>> Does | anyone know a |> |> way |> |>> around this/why the startup window | gets "stuck"? Any advice is |>> greatly appreciated. --Paul |>> |>> | |>> |>> |>> |>> | | |> __________________________________________________________ | | | |>> Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca |>> |> -- Esteban | Xandri <esteban.xandri@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |> |> -- fedora-list mailing | list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To |> unsubscribe: | http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list |> | | | | | | | | |> __________________________________________________________ | | Find | your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca | | - -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list | __________________________________________________________ Find | your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) iD8DBQFDC3v4xHPquN24yVsRA9wUAKDX9rz0WNTv+r/v3FDuP4JKaNg0dgCg8K4x U9yBFGNJjjqlPeim7C2lNIg= =3YO0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
