[CentOS] Display a warning message at a certain time ?
Jobst Schmalenbach
jobst at barrett.com.au
Wed Feb 3 06:20:54 UTC 2010
That's only on terminals (tty's, xterm, console) OR if you have xconsole open.
jobst
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 06:30:15PM -0500, Robert Heller (heller at deepsoft.com) wrote:
> At Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:47:20 +0100 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:
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> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm currently installing a CentOS 5 desktop as a public internet access
> > point. The machine shuts down every day automatically at 22:30. Is there
> > a way I can display a message in GNOME at 22:15 warning the user that
> > the machine will shutdown in 15 minutes ?
>
> I believe the shutdown command automagically generates warning. I would
> *guess* that GNOME would have some applet that monitors these sorts of
> warnings and creates popups.
>
> >
> > Any suggestions ?
> >
> > Niki Kovacs
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