On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 02:13:58PM -0600, Joel Schneider wrote:
>> desktop when my kids login.  I'm wondering what I could use to do this.
>> I have no clues on where to start with this idea.  Any suggestions?
>You could set up swatch to monitor one of the log files in /var/log that
>gets updated when people log in (auth.log ...)

You're working too hard there, why not just put a command or two into thier
$HOME/.xsession or the system xsession (/etc/X11/xdm/Sessions)

>
>As for pop-up windows, maybe use Tcl/Tk to write a simple script - see 
>http://tcl.activestate.com/ for more info.

Again, you're working too hard. Why reinvent the wheel, just use xmessage.
It's ugly as hell but it gets the job done.

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