1 .TH WALL 1 "15 April 2003" "" "Linux User's Manual"
4 wall -- send a message to everybody's terminal.
13 sends a message to everybody logged in with their
18 The message can be given as an argument to
22 standard input. When using the standard input from a terminal,
23 the message should be terminated with the
25 key (usually Control-D).
27 The length of the message is limited to 20 lines.
28 For every invocation of
30 a notification will be written to syslog, with facility
37 Suppresses the normal banner printed by
39 changing it to "Remote broadcast message".
40 This option is only available for root if
42 is installed set-group-id, and is used by
50 variable - the time printed in the banner is based on the systems
58 Miquel van Smoorenburg, miquels@cistron.nl