On Thu, 1 Oct 1998 15:45:24 +0200 (MEST), R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl (Rogier
Wolff) said:
> My thought was that if you access the device, you should run the
> application that shows you the message. If you're accessing the
> multivolume device and forget to run the application, you're on your
> own.
> The person at the console is the one that most likely has physical
> access to the devices in question, so running the reporting program
> would for the "change disks" message be most appropriate for those
> sitting at the console.
> But if it's say a departemental server, all of the X sessions might
> want to include the "get messages program", allowing the person that's
> working on the volume to step up and walk over to the server to change
> disks.
Sounds like you need syslog. syslog already lets you define which
consoles receive which messages. It allows certain classes of users to
be notified of certain types of message, and lets you propogate messages
between hosts.
--Stephen
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