I am currently trying to create a pre-login banner in the /etc/kde3/kdm/Xsetup. This is what I have setup:

if ! kdialog --msgbox 'n MY BANNER!!!!!!!n' 10 10;
then
sleep 10 exit 1;
fi

While using this prior to the banner showing up I get an error message:

Could not read network connection list.
//.DCOPserver_rich-desktop_0

Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running!

I know it deals with the script in some way because if I comment out the script the error goes away. Also if I leave the script in and I click OK on the error message and check to see that the dcopserver is running after login it is.

If anyone can help me to get rid of the error message I would appreciate it.

Just a wild guess without looking into it: At this point kdm hasn't started your user privileges and/or your own dcopserver. So it's impossible to use a programm that relies on a dcop connection.
Maybe just try

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xmessage "" -geometry 640x480 (or whatever you want)


to confirm that.
Though i really can't say how it would work better. Maybe just look into the code of one of the current banner how they did it.

Thanks that does the trick.