Question - can /etc/bashrc be forced out?

[PenguinParoxysm]

My question goes way above and beyond your typical bashrc questions. I'm in a high level san environment where most users log into through VNC sessions and never really close their shell. I really want to propagate my /etc/bashrc changes to the user shell... is this even remotely possible? It's very difficult to make a change and then tell 100+ users that that need to source a file.

Any ideas?

[Icarus]

Bring the machine down for "maintainance" :D

Or do what I use to do and make a change that requires the new source so if they don't source they get errors and cant' do anything until they do

That's if you just ask them to first and they don't, sometimes the BOFH approach is the best and only options :)

[PenguinParoxysm]

I appreciate the advice but it's not an option. It's a high level SAN where downtime is not an option and data availability is the highest priority. I've already composed a script to avert the issue but I'd like to know if these is even possible. I've never come across anything to suggest it is but I was wondering if anybody else has found a way around this issue.

I should also mention this is a NIS environment. The statistics you see in my tag line are very old and that was just a basic PC I had setup in the past. The hardware I am working with in the SAN is very high end.