Manual Pages for UNIX Operating System command usage for man rwall

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  attri-
     butes:



     _______________________________________________________________
    |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |         ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
    |_____________________________|________________________________|
    | Availability                | service/network/network-clients|
    |_____________________________|________________________________|


SEE ALSO
     inetd(1M),  listen(1M),  pmadm(1M),  sacadm(1M),   wall(1M),
     attributes(5)




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System Administration Commands                          rwall(1M)



NOTES
     The timeout is fairly short to allow transmission to a large
     group  of  machines (some of which may be down) in a reason-
     able amount of time. Thus the message may not get through to
     a heavily loaded machine.


















































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