How can I send a message for all the users connected into the system at the same time? Let's say I need to reboot the server and I ask the users to save their jobs becasue the server will be rebooted?
Here is a bit more info for the command:
This commands stands for: write all and is used to send messages to the currently logged users.
It is usually located in this directory:
This directory is not defined in the PATH so you will have to type in your shell the full path name to invoke it as follows:
For more information about this command and arguments to use, see:
Last edited by agasamapetilon; 08-30-2008 at 08:13 AM..
Looking up for some information in the web I also find the command:
Which also sends messages to all users on the network, here are some variants of the command:
Send a message to a specified host:
Send a message to a specified network:
Send a message to a specified host on a network:
You can check for some information related with this command right here:Commands Reference, Volume 4 - rwall Command
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Hello everyone, I was trying to get the all logins of the users connected with awk, using "w" command,
I probe with this:
w|awk 'NR>2 {print $1}'
But I'm not sure...
is it ok?
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Hi people,
i tried to search in the forum... but didnt found the answer...
Sometimes i need to send a console message to all users in all tty, like reboot or shutdown does...
But i cant find how to do that.
Someone know?
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Hi All,
I want to send a message through email.
I have written below code. But it is not worling. Anybody has idea, why it is not working?.
export $file1=$home1/pip1.$$
mailx -s "This Message from unix" abc@yahoo.com< $file1
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What is the best way to send message from Unix script to PC users connected to the box ?
I tried "smbclient -M <machine>" but doesn't work. I prefer not to use Samba.
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Is there a way to monitor the users who are connecting to a Solaris 2.8 Sun Spark workstation . I just need to monitor the users and the command they are usning during telnet or rsh to my workstation.
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Hello: How would you send message to other unix users logged in into the system now.. what should i verify, before sending them a mail across that displays mesage on the terminal. Any man pages? Thanks, ST2000 (2 Replies)