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wall man page on Gentoo

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WALL(1)			      Linux User's Manual		       WALL(1)

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 system's local time.

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

AUTHOR
       Miquel van Smoorenburg, miquels@cistron.nl

				 15 April 2003			       WALL(1)

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