Re: MOTD implementation in gnome-session



tis 2005-10-04 klockan 18:34 +0200 skrev Rodrigo Moya:
> On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 18:29 +0200, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
> > Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > 
> > > I have had this patch around for some time, and seems to work pretty
> > > well, so sending for comments and/or approval.
> > > 
> > > It just makes gnome-session display the /etc/motd file on startup, using
> > > libnotify if available, or an ugly dialog if not. The 2 new files are to
> > > be placed in gnome-session/gnome-session
> > 
> > When we are speaking about support of "old-style" UNIX communication
> > support, I would like to see "write daemon" in default session -
> > something which will open a pty and wait for incoming messages (and
> > being able to translate some of them).
> > 
> > Otherwise pure GNOME user without any terminal opened will loose UPS
> > power failure alert or report about incoming reboot or fatal failure
> > reports from syslogd.
> > 
> gnome-power-manager deals with that now, displaying a dialog to the user
> when battery power is critical

What about when the system shuts down? Can I be informed about that? Can
I be alerted and logged out in a nice way when someone else runs
shutdown -h on the system?




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