rwall(1)

rwall1

Send a message to users logged on a host

Usage

rwall host [file]

Overview

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.

Releases

18 releases since Debian 1.1 (Buzz); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 1.1
  2. 1.2–2.2
  3. 3.0–5.0
  4. 6.0–13

History

The rwall command appeared in SunOS.

From rwall 0.17-11 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.