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[Kurt Wall]

On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 07:57:35AM -0600, Ben Duncan took 0 lines to write:
> Ok, this deals with an AIX box, but the script should run for/on
> my LINUX users as well.
> 
> I need to "interrupt" telnet users with a message.
> This means, saving their screen, writing a message, having
> them acknowledge it somehow and the resuming their screen
> image.
> 
> I can pretty much get to the point where I have all the user ID's
> and pts/x 's in a list in the script, now which "write" command can
> do that ?

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Kurt
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