RWALL(1) - General Commands Manual #

RWALL(1) - General Commands Manual

NAME #

rwall - send a message to users logged on a host

SYNOPSIS #

rwall host [file]

DESCRIPTION #

The rwall command sends a message to the users logged into the specified host. The message to be sent can be typed in and terminated with EOF or it can be in a file.

DIAGNOSTICS #

rwall: RPC: Program not registered

The rpc.rwalld(8) daemon has not been started on the remote host.

rwall: RPC: Timed out

A communication error occurred. Either the network is excessively congested, or the rpc.rwalld(8) daemon has terminated on the remote host.

rwall: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Timed out

The remote host is not running the portmapper (see portmap(8)), and cannot accommodate any RPC-based services. The host may be down.

SEE ALSO #

wall(1), portmap(8), rpc.rwalld(8)

HISTORY #

The rwall command appeared in SunOS.

OpenBSD 7.5 - May 31, 2007