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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers wall Post 14487 by thangorn on Friday 1st of February 2002 04:41:48 AM
Old 02-01-2002
Question

hi

I might be looking at this a little too simple, but couldnt you just make a /etc/nologin file, that should stop anyone logging in. and i think you can put a message in the nologin file the same as you can in a motd file,, so when someone tries to login they get a message. Login Disabled until Blah Blah Blah..

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thangorn
 

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WALL(1) 							Linux User's Manual							   WALL(1)

NAME
wall -- send a message to everybody's terminal. SYNOPSIS
wall [ message ] DESCRIPTION
Wall sends a message to everybody logged in with their mesg(1) permission set to yes. The message can be given as an argument to wall, or it can be sent to wall's standard input. When using the standard input from a terminal, the message should be terminated with the EOF key (usually Control-D). The length of the message is limited to 20 lines. NOTES
There is an undocumented (well not anymore..) option, "-n", that supresses the banner printed by wall . This is for usage by rwalld (8). Wall will not allow you to use that flag if wall is installed set-group-id and the user executing wall is not root. For every invocation of wall a notification will be written to syslog, with facility LOG_USER and level LOG_INFO. ENVIRONMENT
Wall ignores the TZ variable - the time printed in the banner is based on the systems local time. SEE ALSO
mesg(1), rpc.rwalld(8). AUTHOR
Miquel van Smoorenburg, miquels@cistron.nl 12 September 2000 WALL(1)
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