warning dialog box

[Bill Tangren]

Borg, Rodney wrote:
>> Bill Said:
>> inode0 wrote:
>>> On 12/19/06, Bill Tangren <bjt at aa.usno.navy.mil> wrote:
>>>> Could someone point me to a link that explains how to present the 
>>>> user, sitting at the GUI console, with a dialog box either before or
> 
>>>> after login?
>>>> I'm using
>>>> gdm for console login.
>>> I'm not clear on what you are trying to do or when but you might look
> 
>>> at zenity or dialog for popping up dialogs to the user.
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>> OK, zenity will display the dialog box, but where do I place the
> command so that the dialog box is displayed either before or after the
> user >>logs in via gdm?
> 
> Hi Bill,
> 
> I had to do a similar thing recently. This is how I did it:
> 
> 1/ Place banner message in /etc/issue
> 2/ Added the following to /etc/X11/gdm/Init/Default and to
> /etc/X11/gdm/Init/0:
> 	# Login banner
> 	if ! /usr/bin/gdialog --textbox /etc/issue 60 100; then
> 	sleep 10
> 	exit 1;
> 	fi
> 
> I know nothing about zenity but I presume you could put a zenity
> command(?) into the Default and 0: files instead of the gdialog command
> and get similar results.
> I had to do some extra work to make sure this worked for ssh logins too.


[root at mach2 Init]# gdialog --help
gdialog is a compatibility wrapper around zenity, provided to hopefully
allow older scripts to run. If you are reading this message, you should
probably be using zenity directly

type: 'zenity --help' or 'man zenity' for more information
[root at mach2 Init]#


Thanks for the help. I'll try it.