[hobbit] Hobbit Alert

[Ryan Jay B. Lapuz]

Where can I find the info about the machine like the hostname, status, date 
so I can put them in the script and use it for the winpopup message? I'm 
still a newbie and I'll appreciate more if you can give me examples..

Thanks again.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob MacGregor" <rob.macgregor at gmail.com>
To: <hobbit at hswn.dk>
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 4:56 PM
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit Alert


> On 7/23/07, Ryan Jay B. Lapuz <rlapuz at fcpp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>> Good day!
>>
>> Is it possible to receive alerts with information through winpopup 
>> message?
>
> You can have an alert call a script, so if you write the script the
> answer is yes :)
>
> The core command you're looking for is in the samba suite - "smbclient
> -M <HOST>", to send a message of "Goodbye" to machine "wassit" you'd
> do:
>
> echo "Goodbye" | smbclient -M wassit
>
> A quick Google for "samba winpopup" provided a few dozen examples.
>
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