redhat man page for rwall

RWALL(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						  RWALL(1)

NAME
     rwall -- send a message to users logged on a host

SYNOPSIS
     rwall host [file]

DESCRIPTION
     The rwall command sends a message to the users logged into the specified host. The message to be sent can be typed in and terminated with EOF
     or it can be in a file.

DIAGNOSTICS
     rwall: RPC: Program not registered
	     The rpc.rwalld(8) daemon has not been started on the remote host.

     rwall: RPC: Timed out
	     A communication error occurred.  Either the network is excessively congested, or the rpc.rwalld(8) daemon has terminated on the
	     remote host.

     rwall: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Timed out
	     The remote host is not running the portmapper (see portmap(8) ), and cannot accomodate any RPC-based services.  The host may be down.

SEE ALSO
     wall(1), portmap(8), rpc.rwalld(8)

HISTORY
     The rwall command appeared in SunOS.

Linux NetKit (0.17)						  August 15, 1999					       Linux NetKit (0.17)