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)
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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 termi-
nated on the remote host.
rwall: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Timed out The remote host is not running the portmapper (see rpcbind(8)), and cannot accommodate any
RPC-based services. The host may be down.
SEE ALSO who(1), rpc.rwalld(8), rpcbind(8)HISTORY
The rwall command appeared in Sun-OS.
BUGS
The sorting options are not implemented.
BSD April 23, 1991 BSD
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