rwall(1M)                                                  rwall(1M)


       NAME
             rwall - write to all users over a network

       SYNOPSIS
             /usr/sbin/rwall hostname . . .

       DESCRIPTION
             The rwall command 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.

       USAGE
             A machine can only receive rwall messages if it is running
             rwalld(1M).  rwalld may be started by inetd(1M) or listen(1M).

             Note that 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.

       REFERENCES
             inetd(1M), listen(1M), pmadm(1M), rwalld(1M), sacadm(1M),
             wall(1M)























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