WALL
Section: Linux User’s Manual (1)
Updated: 15 April 2003
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NAME
wall — send a message to everybody’s terminal.
SYNOPSIS
wall[-n][ message ]
DESCRIPTION
Wallsends a message to everybody logged in with theirmesg(1)permissionset toyes.The message can be given as an argument towall,or it can be sent towall‘sstandard input. When using the standard input from a terminal,the message should be terminated with theEOFkey (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 theTZvariable – the time printed in the banner is based on the system’slocal time.
SEE ALSO
mesg(1),rpc.rwalld(8).
AUTHOR
Miquel van Smoorenburg, miquels@cistron.nl
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