System wide message:

System wide message:

[Dawes, Stephen]

The subject line may be a bit misleading at first, but here goes
nothing.

What I am looking for is a system command / tool that will allow me to
broadcast a message to everyone connected to my Linux box. 
What I am doing is playing with caller id. 
I have the caller id being captured into a log file, but now I want to
enhance things by having the same information displayed on the computers
that are connect to the Linux box at the time that the phone rings
It would also be nice if the information was also displayed on the samba
connected boxes too.
I don't want to use email or http because I am looking for real time
messaging.
So, if I am working at the computer, or if I am in a room with a
computer in it, and the phone rings, I can hear the message of the
caller id spoken as the phone is ringing.

Any thoughts?

Steve Dawes
Phone: (403) 268-5527
Email: SDawes@calgary.ca
 
 


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Re: System wide message:

[Travis Siegel]

The program used to send messages to everyone logged on is wall.
I.E.
wall system is going down for reboot in 10 minutes
would send the message to everyone logged in at the moment.
If you wanted to send it to just one person, use write <user-id>
If there's only one person logged in, then they efectively do the same
thing.

Re: System wide message:

[Alex Snow]

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Hi. Take a look at the wall command. if you pass it the name of the 
logfile it will send it to all consoles on the system.
On Mon, Aug 23, 
2004 at 12:24:41PM -0600, Dawes, Stephen wrote:
> The subject line may be a bit misleading at first, but here goes
> nothing.
> 
> What I am looking for is a system command / tool that will allow me to
> broadcast a message to everyone connected to my Linux box. 
> What I am doing is playing with caller id. 
> I have the caller id being captured into a log file, but now I want to
> enhance things by having the same information displayed on the computers
> that are connect to the Linux box at the time that the phone rings
> It would also be nice if the information was also displayed on the samba
> connected boxes too.
> I don't want to use email or http because I am looking for real time
> messaging.
> So, if I am working at the computer, or if I am in a room with a
> computer in it, and the phone rings, I can hear the message of the
> caller id spoken as the phone is ringing.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Steve Dawes
> Phone: (403) 268-5527
> Email: SDawes@calgary.ca
>  
>  
> 
> 
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Re: System wide message:

[Jayson Smith]

Actually, for a message broadcast to everybody connected via telnet/ssh, try
wall.
Jayson.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dawes, Stephen" <Stephen.Dawes@calgary.ca>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 2:24 PM
Subject: System wide message:


The subject line may be a bit misleading at first, but here goes
nothing.

What I am looking for is a system command / tool that will allow me to
broadcast a message to everyone connected to my Linux box.
What I am doing is playing with caller id.
I have the caller id being captured into a log file, but now I want to
enhance things by having the same information displayed on the computers
that are connect to the Linux box at the time that the phone rings
It would also be nice if the information was also displayed on the samba
connected boxes too.
I don't want to use email or http because I am looking for real time
messaging.
So, if I am working at the computer, or if I am in a room with a
computer in it, and the phone rings, I can hear the message of the
caller id spoken as the phone is ringing.

Any thoughts?

Steve Dawes
Phone: (403) 268-5527
Email: SDawes@calgary.ca




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Re: System wide message:

[Wesley Groleau]

On 23 Aug 2004, at 13:24, Dawes, Stephen wrote:
> I have the caller id being captured into a log file, but now I want to
> enhance things by having the same information displayed on the 
> computers
> that are connect to the Linux box at the time that the phone rings

This intrigues me!  How do you get caller ID on your computer.
Special hardware?

Anyway, check out the man page for "wall"  ( Write ALL )
Not sure how to get message to other boxes, but I know
it can be done.

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Wes Groleau

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Re: System wide message:

[Gregory Nowak]

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On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 09:43:07PM -0500, Wesley Groleau wrote:
> This intrigues me!  How do you get caller ID on your computer.
> Special hardware?
> 

Nope, just your standard modem supporting caller id, and caller id
service from your phone company of course.

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Re: System wide message:

[Wesley Groleau]

>> This intrigues me!  How do you get caller ID on your computer.
>> Special hardware?

> Nope, just your standard modem supporting caller id, and caller id
> service from your phone company of course.

Wow.  I've been thinking for ages, "Somebody ought to make a modem
that does caller ID" and now I hear they've been around for a while.

Nobody ever tells me nothing !  :-)

Manufacturer, model number?

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Re: System wide message:

[Jayson Smith]

Probably most any modern modem will have Caller ID support.  Assuming your
modem uses the standard at command set and you can talk directly with your
modem, try the following command
at#cid=1
I think that's right anyway!  If you get an OK or at least not an ERROR then
your modem probably supports Caller ID.  Now what I don't know is how to
actually get a program which monitors the modem and reports the Caller ID
info under Linux.  Anyone?
Jayson.

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From: "Wesley Groleau" <groleau+wes@freeshell.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 11:09 PM
Subject: Re: System wide message:


> >> This intrigues me!  How do you get caller ID on your computer.
> >> Special hardware?
>
> > Nope, just your standard modem supporting caller id, and caller id
> > service from your phone company of course.
>
> Wow.  I've been thinking for ages, "Somebody ought to make a modem
> that does caller ID" and now I hear they've been around for a while.
>
> Nobody ever tells me nothing !  :-)
>
> Manufacturer, model number?
>
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Re: System wide message:

[Gregory Nowak]

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On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 11:30:33PM -0400, Jayson Smith wrote:
> Now what I don't know is how to
> actually get a program which monitors the modem and reports the Caller ID
> info under Linux.  Anyone?

Yup, try minicom.

Greg



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RE: System wide message:

[Dawes, Stephen]

You bet.

Watch for more on this in my next post.

In the need for meaningful subject lines, I am going to talk about this
project from now on a new thread, because we have now strayed from the
original focus of the subject, "System wide message" into talking about
caller id. 



Steve Dawes
Phone: (403) 268-5527
Email: SDawes@calgary.ca
 
  


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> Subject: Re: System wide message:
> 
> when you figure that out will you send along your solution 
> please? I'd love to be able to use that kind of tool myself
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Re: System wide message:

[Shaun Oliver]

when you figure that out will you send along your solution please? I'd 
love to be able to use that kind of tool myself

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RE: System wide message:

[Dawes, Stephen]

I have found the solution I am looking for.

1. wall writes to all connected directly to the Linux box.
2. rwall transmits the message across rpc to the rest of the Linux
network. 
3. smbclient transmits the message to the samba network

Now it is on to putting all the pieces together to create the little
system that I am working on.

Thanks to all for the help, it pointed me in the right direction.


Steve Dawes
Phone: (403) 268-5527
Email: SDawes@calgary.ca



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Re: System wide message:

[Alex Snow]

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there's an app that you can use to send those messages...I think it's 
called linpopup. only problem is I think it may be x11-based.
On Mon, Aug 
23, 2004 at 04:59:14PM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote:
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> No, not unless you can figure out how to pipe the output from wol into
> the message command. Also, while the man page contents I pasted in my
> message describes how to receive a message on the gnu/linux box, I'm
> sure there's got to be a way to send them as well, do some more man
> page reading or googling.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 02:13:34PM -0600, Dawes, Stephen wrote:
> > Greg, 
> > 
> > If I am reading this right, when, let's say wall transmits a message,
> > samba sees it and with the message command ... The console message
> > generated by wall is transmitted across the samba network?
> > 
> > Steve Dawes
> > Phone: (403) 268-5527
> > Email: SDawes@calgary.ca
> >  
> >  
> > 
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Re: System wide message:

[Shaun Oliver]

you'd need to use smbclient with the -M flag. e.g. smbclient -M steve
message here
ctrl+D

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Re: System wide message:

[Thomas Stivers]

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On Mon, Aug 23 2004 at 04:59:14PM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> No, not unless you can figure out how to pipe the output from wol into
> the message command. Also, while the man page contents I pasted in my
> message describes how to receive a message on the gnu/linux box, I'm
> sure there's got to be a way to send them as well, do some more man
> page reading or googling.

Check out the smbclient man page particularly the -M option, but I don't see
how you're going to get it to send the message as a broadcast to all your
boxes.

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Re: System wide message:

[Gregory Nowak]

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No, not unless you can figure out how to pipe the output from wol into
the message command. Also, while the man page contents I pasted in my
message describes how to receive a message on the gnu/linux box, I'm
sure there's got to be a way to send them as well, do some more man
page reading or googling.

Greg


On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 02:13:34PM -0600, Dawes, Stephen wrote:
> Greg, 
> 
> If I am reading this right, when, let's say wall transmits a message,
> samba sees it and with the message command ... The console message
> generated by wall is transmitted across the samba network?
> 
> Steve Dawes
> Phone: (403) 268-5527
> Email: SDawes@calgary.ca
>  
>  
> 
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Re: System wide message:

[Alex Snow]

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I don't think so...I thought it looked like it did the opisite. taking 
a message from the windows machine and handling it on the linux box.
On 
Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 02:13:34PM -0600, Dawes, Stephen wrote:
> Greg, 
> 
> If I am reading this right, when, let's say wall transmits a message,
> samba sees it and with the message command ... The console message
> generated by wall is transmitted across the samba network?
> 
> Steve Dawes
> Phone: (403) 268-5527
> Email: SDawes@calgary.ca
>  
>  
> 
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca 
> > [mailto:speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Gregory Nowak
> > Sent: 2004 August 23 1:48 PM
> > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> > Subject: Re: System wide message:
> > 
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> > 
> > - From the smb.conf(5) man page:
> > 
> > message command (G)
> >               This specifies what command to run when the server
> >               receives a WinPopup style message.
> > 
> >               This would normally be a command that would deliver the
> > 	      message somehow. How this is to be done is up
> >               to your imagination.
> > 
> >               An example is:
> > 
> >               message command = csh -c 'xedit %s;rm %s' &
> > 
> >               This  delivers  the  message  using xedit, then removes
> > 	      it afterwards. NOTE THAT IT IS VERY IMPORTANT
> >               THAT THIS COMMAND RETURN IMMEDIATELY. That's why I have
> > 	      the '&' on the  end.  If  it  doesn't  return
> >               immediately  then  your PCs may freeze when sending
> > 	      messages (they should recover after 30secs, hope-
> >               fully).
> > 
> >               All messages are delivered as the global guest user.
> > 	      The command takes the  standard  substitutions,
> >               although  %u won't work (%U may be better in this case).
> > 
> >               Apart from the standard substitutions, some additional
> > 	      ones apply. In particular:
> > 
> >               o %s = the filename containing the message.
> > 
> >               o %t = the destination that the message was sent to
> > 	      (probably the server name).
> > 
> > o %f = who the message is from.
> > 
> >        You  could  make this command send mail, or whatever else takes
> >        your fancy. Please let us know of any really
> >        interesting ideas you have.
> > 
> >        Here's a way of sending the messages as mail to root:
> > 
> >        message command = /bin/mail -s 'message from %f on %m' root <
> >        %s; rm %s
> > 
> >        If you don't have a message command then the message won't be
> >        delivered and Samba will tell the sender there
> >        was  an  error. Unfortunately WfWg totally ignores the error
> >        code and carries on regardless, saying that the
> >        message was delivered.
> > 
> >        If you want to silently delete it then try:
> > 
> >        message command = rm %s
> > 
> >        Default: no message command
> > 
> >        Example: message command = csh -c 'xedit %s; rm %s' &
> > 
> > Hth.
> > 
> > Greg
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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RE: System wide message:

[Dawes, Stephen]

Greg, 

If I am reading this right, when, let's say wall transmits a message,
samba sees it and with the message command ... The console message
generated by wall is transmitted across the samba network?

Steve Dawes
Phone: (403) 268-5527
Email: SDawes@calgary.ca
 
 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca 
> [mailto:speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Gregory Nowak
> Sent: 2004 August 23 1:48 PM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: System wide message:
> 
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> - From the smb.conf(5) man page:
> 
> message command (G)
>               This specifies what command to run when the server
>               receives a WinPopup style message.
> 
>               This would normally be a command that would deliver the
> 	      message somehow. How this is to be done is up
>               to your imagination.
> 
>               An example is:
> 
>               message command = csh -c 'xedit %s;rm %s' &
> 
>               This  delivers  the  message  using xedit, then removes
> 	      it afterwards. NOTE THAT IT IS VERY IMPORTANT
>               THAT THIS COMMAND RETURN IMMEDIATELY. That's why I have
> 	      the '&' on the  end.  If  it  doesn't  return
>               immediately  then  your PCs may freeze when sending
> 	      messages (they should recover after 30secs, hope-
>               fully).
> 
>               All messages are delivered as the global guest user.
> 	      The command takes the  standard  substitutions,
>               although  %u won't work (%U may be better in this case).
> 
>               Apart from the standard substitutions, some additional
> 	      ones apply. In particular:
> 
>               o %s = the filename containing the message.
> 
>               o %t = the destination that the message was sent to
> 	      (probably the server name).
> 
> o %f = who the message is from.
> 
>        You  could  make this command send mail, or whatever else takes
>        your fancy. Please let us know of any really
>        interesting ideas you have.
> 
>        Here's a way of sending the messages as mail to root:
> 
>        message command = /bin/mail -s 'message from %f on %m' root <
>        %s; rm %s
> 
>        If you don't have a message command then the message won't be
>        delivered and Samba will tell the sender there
>        was  an  error. Unfortunately WfWg totally ignores the error
>        code and carries on regardless, saying that the
>        message was delivered.
> 
>        If you want to silently delete it then try:
> 
>        message command = rm %s
> 
>        Default: no message command
> 
>        Example: message command = csh -c 'xedit %s; rm %s' &
> 
> Hth.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> 

Re: System wide message:

[Gregory Nowak]

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- From the smb.conf(5) man page:

message command (G)
              This specifies what command to run when the server
              receives a WinPopup style message.

              This would normally be a command that would deliver the
	      message somehow. How this is to be done is up
              to your imagination.

              An example is:

              message command = csh -c 'xedit %s;rm %s' &

              This  delivers  the  message  using xedit, then removes
	      it afterwards. NOTE THAT IT IS VERY IMPORTANT
              THAT THIS COMMAND RETURN IMMEDIATELY. That's why I have
	      the '&' on the  end.  If  it  doesn't  return
              immediately  then  your PCs may freeze when sending
	      messages (they should recover after 30secs, hope-
              fully).

              All messages are delivered as the global guest user.
	      The command takes the  standard  substitutions,
              although  %u won't work (%U may be better in this case).

              Apart from the standard substitutions, some additional
	      ones apply. In particular:

              o %s = the filename containing the message.

              o %t = the destination that the message was sent to
	      (probably the server name).

o %f = who the message is from.

       You  could  make this command send mail, or whatever else takes
       your fancy. Please let us know of any really
       interesting ideas you have.

       Here's a way of sending the messages as mail to root:

       message command = /bin/mail -s 'message from %f on %m' root <
       %s; rm %s

       If you don't have a message command then the message won't be
       delivered and Samba will tell the sender there
       was  an  error. Unfortunately WfWg totally ignores the error
       code and carries on regardless, saying that the
       message was delivered.

       If you want to silently delete it then try:

       message command = rm %s

       Default: no message command

       Example: message command = csh -c 'xedit %s; rm %s' &

Hth.

Greg


On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 12:54:35PM -0600, Dawes, Stephen wrote:
> Does wall transmit to a box connected to the network via samba at the
> same time?
> 
> 
> Steve Dawes
> Phone: (403) 268-5527
> Email: SDawes@calgary.ca
>  
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> 
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RE: System wide message:

[Dawes, Stephen]

Does wall transmit to a box connected to the network via samba at the
same time?


Steve Dawes
Phone: (403) 268-5527
Email: SDawes@calgary.ca
 
 


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca 
> [mailto:speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Travis Siegel
> Sent: 2004 August 23 12:32 PM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: System wide message:
> 
> The program used to send messages to everyone logged on is wall.
> I.E.
> wall system is going down for reboot in 10 minutes would send 
> the message to everyone logged in at the moment.
> If you wanted to send it to just one person, use write 
> <user-id> If there's only one person logged in, then they 
> efectively do the same thing.
> 
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