rwall(1M) System Administration Commands rwall(1M)
NAME
rwall - write to all users over a network
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/rwall hostname...
/usr/sbin/rwall -n netgroup...
/usr/sbin/rwall -h hostname -n netgroup
DESCRIPTION
rwall reads a message from standard input until EOF. It then sends this message, preceded by the line:
Broadcast Message ...
to all users logged in on the specified host machines. With the -n option, it sends to the specified network groups.
OPTIONS
-n netgroup Send the broadcast message to the specified network groups.
-h hostname Specify the hostname, the name of the host machine.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWrcmdc |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
inetd(1M), listen(1M), pmadm(1M), sacadm(1M), wall(1M), attributes(5)
NOTES
The timeout is fairly short to allow transmission to a large group of machines (some of which may be down) in a reasonable amount of time.
Thus the message may not get through to a heavily loaded machine.
SunOS 5.10 6 Nov 2000 rwall(1M)
