[Ilugc] Re: One Day One GNU/Linux Command (WALL) (Bharathi Subramanian)

Arun Khan knura at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 2 14:31:39 IST 2008


On Wednesday 02 Jul 2008, msverman at gnugalaxy.com wrote:
> wall -- Send a message to everybody's terminal.

Traditional used by sys admins to announce actions that will impact the 
logged in users e.g. system maintenance.

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> Is there any command to send messages to a particular user or
> hostname.

user - email?
host - rexec?

> like lan messenger

What is this?  At least give a 2 line description of what it does to 
give us an idea what you are looking for.  Don't assume everyone knows 
lan messenger.

-- 
Arun Khan



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