RWALL(8) Maintenance Commands and Procedures RWALL(8)

rwall - write to all users over a network

/usr/sbin/rwall hostname...

/usr/sbin/rwall -n netgroup...

/usr/sbin/rwall -h hostname -n netgroup

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.

-n netgroup

Send the broadcast message to the specified network groups.

-h hostname

Specify the hostname, the name of the host machine.

attributes(7), inetd(8), listen(8), pmadm(8), sacadm(8), wall(8)

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.

November 6, 2000 OmniOS