WOW! What quick responses from the group! I appreciate all the

responses that I got from Sabrina Downard, Harvey Wamboldt, Lee

Trujillo, and Mark Neill!

Sabrina suggested that I could modify the shutdown "script", but in

our case (Solaris 2.6), it is an executable as is shown below :

% file `which shutdown`

/usr/ucb/shutdown: ELF 32-bit MSB executable SPARC Version 1, dynamically linked, stripped

The rest of the bunch basically said that CDE tosses all console I/O

into a bit-bucket -- unless you open a console window or as Harvey

suggested to use "xterm -C".

In our case, I cannot guarantee that each and every user has a CDE

console window up on screen (and uniconified) OR an xterm doubling as

the same thing! I guess I need to find an scripting version of

shutdown or something that I've got the source to and can modify to

fit our configuration! Any ideas?

Thanks!

-- Rick