[NBLUG/talk] System Message

[Walter Hansen]

Thanks so much. I was googling "linux system message", "linux user
message" and all sorts of varriants and wasn't finding what I needed. This
looks like it.



> On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 15:58 -0800, Walter Hansen wrote:
>> I thought there was a way to send a system message to all users, but I
>> can't seem to find it now that I have a use for it. I can do it with a
>> shutdown -k now "message", but it really implies that the system is
>> going
>> to go down. I'd rather just broadcast my "message". Yes, I've tried
>> google
>> till I'm blue in the face.
>
> Use the "wall" command.  Either enter your message at standard input
> (you can also pipe the results of another program into wall) or direct
> the program to read the message from a text file.
>
> Try "man wall" for more information.
>
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