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I wrote a little application which allows me to pop up an
alert panel on the Workspace from the command line, ala
/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Inform.

This works great as long as I am doing it from a Terminal
Session I started.  But, it does not work if I rlogin into
the machine.  I know about PublicWindowServer and DON'T want
to turn it on for various reasons.

I tried to su to root and do the same thing, but this
doesn't even work.  I mucked around and read in the
loginwindow(8) man page that an application must be
descended from either the Workspace or be a special system
process such as the printer daemon.  And yes, this seems to
hold true.

Now, how can I get around this?  I want to write a one of
the aforementioned special system processes that can write
to the Workspace without Public Window Server being set but
have no idea what the Workspace is looking for...

Why do I want to do this?  Well, I'd like to put up an panel
on a machine when I am about reboot a machine remotely like
this:

rlogin machine
su
displaymsg "Message is going to reboot in 60 seconds"
sleep 60
reboot

Any pointers to help solve this problem would be greatly
appreciated.  Note that I am trying to do this under
NeXTSTEP 3.0.

Thanks!

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