wall

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NAME

       wall -- send a message to everybody's terminal.

SYNOPSIS

       wall [-n] [ message ]

DESCRIPTION

       Wall  sends a message to everybody logged in with their mesg(1) permis-
       sion set to yes.  The message can be given as an argument to  wall,  or
       it can be sent to wall's standard input.  When using the standard input
       from a terminal, the message should be  terminated  with  the  EOF  key
       (usually Control-D).

       The length of the message is limited to 20 lines.  For every invocation
       of wall a  notification  will  be  written  to  syslog,  with  facility
       LOG_USER and level LOG_INFO.

OPTIONS

       -n     Suppresses  the  normal  banner  printed by wall, changing it to
              "Remote broadcast message".  This option is only  available  for
              root   if  wall  is  installed  set-group-id,  and  is  used  by
              rpc.walld(8).

ENVIRONMENT

       Wall ignores the TZ variable - the time printed in the banner is  based
       on the systems local time.

SEE ALSO

       mesg(1), rpc.rwalld(8).

AUTHOR

       Miquel van Smoorenburg, miquels@cistron.nl



                                 15 April 2003                         WALL(1)