1rwall(1M)               System Administration Commands               rwall(1M)
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NAME

6       rwall - write to all users over a network
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SYNOPSIS

9       /usr/sbin/rwall hostname...
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DESCRIPTION

19       rwall reads a message from standard input until EOF. It then sends this
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24           Broadcast Message ...
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28       to all users logged in on the specified  host  machines.  With  the  -n
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OPTIONS

32       -n netgroup    Send  the  broadcast  message  to  the specified network
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36       -h hostname    Specify the hostname, the name of the host machine.
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ATTRIBUTES

40       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
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45       ┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
46       │      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         │      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        │
47       ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
48       │Availability                 │SUNWrcmdc                    │
49       └─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
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SEE ALSO

52       inetd(1M), listen(1M), pmadm(1M), sacadm(1M), wall(1M), attributes(5)
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NOTES

55       The timeout is fairly short to allow transmission to a large  group  of
56       machines  (some  of  which may be down) in a reasonable amount of time.
57       Thus the message may not get through to a heavily loaded machine.
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61SunOS 5.11                        6 Nov 2000                         rwall(1M)
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