Pop up messages !!!!

UNIX Solaris
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Dears,

Can you please help me regarding pop up messages !!!!

I want system to display a pop up message for all the users connected to the system when /var size reach more the 80%.
This message should appears once in an hour.

Thanks for your help.

2

pop up message via putty?
btw, the administrator is the one who should be looking at this and to be concern of. not the users...?

3

#!/bin/sh
dialog --infobox "Your message here " 15 15

You need to get and install this pkg
ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freeware/intel/10/dialog-1.0.20050306-sol10-intel-local.gz

4

Thanks for the replies, sorry i think i didn't fully convey my query....

Actually i want to have alert messages on console display ...
like mention below using putty or SecureCRT....

#
#
#
ALERT:: YOUR /var size reached more then 80%
#

Thanks.

5

.. you can run a wall message off cron.
I'm with incredible here. What are the users going to do with that bit of information?

6

There are scripts to monitor the filesystem usage and it will send an email to the admin automatically when it reaches threshold. Its more of a better idea to do so.