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Does someone have an X display?  You could have cron launch it to run
from an xterm displayed on the appropriate persons display.

I think you can also redirect I/O to ttys with redirecting to
/dev/tty1, or some such.  I've seen utilities for running a command on
a specific tty.  I don't have one right here, but I'm pretty sure they
exist.

Finally, you could do some interesting scripting to catch the message
from tar, fire up an xmessage window with the prompt, then push a
response back to tarwhen the xmessage gets responded to.  Again, that
assumes there is an X display somewhere.

Michael

Michael


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