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WALL
Section: Linux User's Manual (1)
Updated: 15 April 2003
Index
NAME
wall -- send a message to everybody's terminal.
SYNOPSIS
wall[
-n][
message ]
DESCRIPTION
Wallsends a message to everybody logged in with their
mesg(1)permissionset to
yes.The message can be given as an argument to
wall,or it can be sent to
wall'sstandard input. When using the standard input from a terminal,the message should be terminated with the
EOFkey (usually Control-D).
The length of the message is limited to 20 lines.For every invocation ofwalla notification will be written to syslog, with facilityLOG_USERand levelLOG_INFO.
OPTIONS
- -n
- Suppresses the normal banner printed bywall,changing it to "Remote broadcast message".This option is only available for root ifwallis installed set-group-id, and is used byrpc.walld(8).
ENVIRONMENT
Wallignores the
TZvariable - the time printed in the banner is based on the system'slocal time.
SEE ALSO
mesg(1),
rpc.rwalld(8).
AUTHOR
Miquel van Smoorenburg, miquelsAATTcistron.nl
Index
- NAME
- SYNOPSIS
- DESCRIPTION
- OPTIONS
- ENVIRONMENT
- SEE ALSO
- AUTHOR
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