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
       LOGUSER and level LOGINFO.


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)