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   6 .TH RWALL 1M "Nov 6, 2000"
   7 .SH NAME
   8 rwall \- write to all users over a network
   9 .SH SYNOPSIS
  10 .LP
  11 .nf
  12 \fB/usr/sbin/rwall\fR \fIhostname\fR...
  13 .fi
  14 
  15 .LP
  16 .nf
  17 \fB/usr/sbin/rwall\fR \fB-n\fR \fInetgroup\fR...
  18 .fi
  19 
  20 .LP
  21 .nf
  22 \fB/usr/sbin/rwall\fR \fB-h\fR \fIhostname\fR \fB-n\fR \fInetgroup\fR
  23 .fi
  24 
  25 .SH DESCRIPTION
  26 .sp
  27 .LP
  28 \fBrwall\fR reads a message from standard input until EOF. It then sends this
  29 message, preceded by the line:
  30 .sp
  31 .ne 2
  32 .na
  33 \fB\fR
  34 .ad
  35 .sp .6
  36 .RS 4n
  37 \fBBroadcast Message .\|.\|.\fR
  38 .RE
  39 
  40 .sp
  41 .LP
  42 to all users logged in on the specified host machines. With the \fB-n\fR
  43 option, it sends to the specified network groups.
  44 .SH OPTIONS
  45 .sp
  46 .ne 2
  47 .na
  48 \fB\fB-n\fR\fI netgroup\fR\fR
  49 .ad
  50 .RS 15n
  51 Send the broadcast message to the specified network groups.
  52 .RE
  53 
  54 .sp
  55 .ne 2
  56 .na
  57 \fB\fB-h\fR\fI hostname\fR\fR
  58 .ad
  59 .RS 15n
  60 Specify the \fBhostname\fR, the name of the host machine.
  61 .RE
  62 
  63 .SH SEE ALSO
  64 .sp
  65 .LP
  66 \fBinetd\fR(1M), \fBlisten\fR(1M), \fBpmadm\fR(1M), \fBsacadm\fR(1M),
  67 \fBwall\fR(1M), \fBattributes\fR(5)
  68 .SH NOTES
  69 .sp
  70 .LP
  71 The timeout is fairly short to allow transmission to a large group of machines
  72 (some of which may be down) in a reasonable amount of time. Thus the message
  73 may not get through to a heavily loaded machine.