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- Subject: a way to warn the console user
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.205007.2405@ccsvax.sfasu.edu>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 20:50:07 CST
- Organization: Stephen F. Austin State University
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- Can someone suggest a way to warn the console user that I'm about to reboot
- the machine? Write, talk or shutdown are great ONLY IF s/he has Terminal
- running.
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- I've tried using Alert from ShellPanels, but I'm told...
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- DPS client library error: Could not form connection, host local host
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- Thanks.
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- Randomly, Kelly Cunningham
- <deviate@lipschitz.sfasu.edu><f_cnnghamjk@ccsvax.sfasu.edu><jkellyc@tenet.edu>
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