NAME
rwall — write to all users over a network
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/rwall
hostname ...
/usr/sbin/rwall -n
netgroup ...
/usr/sbin/rwall -h
host
-n
netgroup
DESCRIPTION
rwall
reads a message from standard input until EOF,
then sends the message, preceded by the line
Broadcast Message ...,
to all users logged in on the specified host machines.
With the
-n
option,
rwall
sends the message to the specified network hosts
defined in
/etc/netgroup
(see
netgroup(4)).
A machine can only receive such a message if it is running
rwalld,
which is normally started from
/etc/inetd.conf
by the
inetd
daemon (see
inetd(1M)).
WARNINGS
The timeout is kept fairly short
so that the message can be sent 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.
AUTHOR
rwall
was developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.