From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Choate To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] 'wall' messages In-Reply-To: <7ff3f01c9994da4c533c749c14e09ea3@plan9.bell-labs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 21:28:24 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 631aa5d0-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote: > Send them mail from the console saying 'reboot at 21:00'. > Put it in a file in /lib/news too so anyone just logging > in or logging in afterwards knows what happened. Pity you can't do something like: echo "WARNING: REBOOT AT 21:00" > /dev/display/* >> /lib/news or something similar. Shouldn't each users display be accessible into bootes' namespace for just this sort of stuff. -- -- God exists because mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exist because we can't prove it. Andre Weil, in H. Eves, Mathematical Circles Adieu ravage@ssz.com jchoate@open-forge.com www.ssz.com www.open-forge.com