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rwall

Section: System Administration Commands (1M)
Updated: 6 Nov 2000
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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 TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
AvailabilitySUNWrcmdc

 

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.

 

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NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
ATTRIBUTES
SEE ALSO
NOTES
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