On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Leslie Satenstein<lsatenstein@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I would like to send an alert about a system change or an alert to all gnome > users that the system is going offline for maintenance at a certain time. > > What is the equivalent to the wall function that pops up a window in kde or > gnome with the message in a window that must be acknowledged. KDE, at least 3.5, acknowledges standard wall messages, though i was not forced. But regular wall isn't forced either. I am not sure any current OS has mandatory remotely sent messaging. -- Fedora 10 (www.pembo13.com) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines