rwall(1M)                        UNIX System V                        rwall(1M)


NAME
      rwall - write to all users over a network

SYNOPSIS
      /usr/sbin/rwall hostname . . .

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.

      A machine can only receive such a message if it is running rwalld(1M),
      which may be started by inetd(1M) or listen(1M).

NOTES
      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.

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






























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