Using write/talk with Gnome

Hello,
I administrate small local network in which most of users login through
gdm and use gnome without opening even single terminal window. The
problem is: I would very much like to be able to send them messages with
write (or maybe world's gone further and I'm missing some new
technology of communicating in linux?) - what I've got on my mind is a
deamon waiting for connections from write and poping a window in the
middle of a screen with message_from_user when needed.

Giving any sort of solution will be appreciated. If, additionally, it
worked for talk as well it'd be just great :)


sirix.

sirix wrote:

> Hello,
> I administrate small local network in which most of users login through

<snip>
No, you *ADMINISTER* a small local network.....

sirix wrote:
> Hello,
> I administrate small local network in which most of users login through
> gdm and use gnome without opening even single terminal window. The
> problem is: I would very much like to be able to send them messages with
> write (or maybe world's gone further and I'm missing some new
> technology of communicating in linux?) - what I've got on my mind is a
> deamon waiting for connections from write and poping a window in the
> middle of a screen with message_from_user when needed.
>
> Giving any sort of solution will be appreciated. If, additionally, it
> worked for talk as well it'd be just great :)

"In a world without walls, who needs windows?
In a world without fences, who needs Gates?"

Sorry for this quote, but "wall" is what You might want to use...


Cheers, Jack.

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Angus Marshall wrote:

> sirix wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I administrate small local network in which most of users login through
>
> <snip>
> No, you *ADMINISTER* a small local network.....

And what is your solution, Angus?

Doug.
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freedom and truth.
--Henrik Ibsen.

jack wrote:

> sirix wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I administrate small local network in which most of users login through
>> gdm and use gnome without opening even single terminal window. The
>> problem is: I would very much like to be able to send them messages with
>> write (or maybe world's gone further and I'm missing some new
>> technology of communicating in linux?) - what I've got on my mind is a
>> deamon waiting for connections from write and poping a window in the
>> middle of a screen with message_from_user when needed.
>>
>> Giving any sort of solution will be appreciated. If, additionally, it
>> worked for talk as well it'd be just great :)
>
> "In a world without walls, who needs windows?
> In a world without fences, who needs Gates?"
>
> Sorry for this quote, but "wall" is what You might want to use...
>
>
> Cheers, Jack.
>

Hmm - don't know your firewall / proxy specifics but we use GAIM in our
organisation to let employees chat with each other for work purposes -
using its MSN fuctionality. You might want to take a looka at it? It
supports ICQ and several other chat protocols as well and compiles / runs
fine on the RedHat 9 and Windows systems in our organisation. Binaries for
Windows and source for *nix is available. It is very stable and works
perfectly for us.

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Stefan Viljoen
Software Support Technician
Polar Design Solutions

jack wrote:

> Sorry for this quote, but "wall" is what You might want to use...

Unfortunatly, there is no sign of using wall if user has
no terminals opened... quote was ok, though ;-)

sirix

Angus Marshall wrote:
>>I administrate small local network in which most of users login through

> <snip>
> No, you *ADMINISTER* a small local network.....

Ok, I'll remember that, really - don't be ashamed to do the same next
time :-)


sirix.

Stefan Viljoen wrote:

> Hmm - don't know your firewall / proxy specifics but we use GAIM in our
> organisation to let employees chat with each other for work purposes -
> using its MSN fuctionality. You might want to take a looka at it? It
> supports ICQ and several other chat protocols as well and compiles / runs
> fine on the RedHat 9 and Windows systems in our organisation. Binaries for
> Windows and source for *nix is available. It is very stable and works
> perfectly for us.

There are two disadvantages of using GAIM: First is that users can just
close them (or maybe there is a way of starting a program so users
cannot close it???), and second is it doesn't work in situation when I
connect with my local network from remote terminal (at internet cafe,
let's say) - and that's mostly what I want to attain.

sirix.