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Sending windows messenger messages on linux
Hello,
Is there anyway that I could automatically send a message to all of the computers on the network usign the windows messenger service(not M$N Messenger) from my red hat 9.0 server.
I would like to beable to make it so when the server restarts a message is sent.
- Robbert
Is there anyway that I could automatically send a message to all of the computers on the network usign the windows messenger service(not M$N Messenger) from my red hat 9.0 server.
I would like to beable to make it so when the server restarts a message is sent.
- Robbert
ASKER
Thanks, that worked like a charm
ASKER
I have one question, how would I make it so that that script runs when the redhat box is restarted?
If you can help me with that, i'll give you 100 points
- Robbert
If you can help me with that, i'll give you 100 points
- Robbert
you can call the script from /etc/rc.d/rc.local and it will do it's thing on startup... Hope that helps!
ASKER
I need the server to send out a message, when the server is going to be down for a restart or shutdown.
I made a message saying: "The server will be down for the next few minutes." and I want that to be send to all of the computers on the network.
- Robbert
I made a message saying: "The server will be down for the next few minutes." and I want that to be send to all of the computers on the network.
- Robbert
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Sorry about the delay, I completely forgot about this question.
where [host] is either a machine name or a user name.
If you have a list of hosts, you could make a simple script to message them all
#! /usr/bin/perl -w
open (IN,"listOfHosts.txt");
while (<IN>){
chomp;
system ("cat yourMessage.txt | smbclient -M $_");
}
close IN;
Note that messaging to users (rather than hosts) can be problematic if a user is signed on at more than one computer.