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Re: what happened to wall ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Uphoff)
Fri Oct 25 16:09:15 1996
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 14:56:51 -0400
From: Jeff Uphoff <juphoff@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu>
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"ET" == Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com> writes:
ET> On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Jacek Radajewski wrote:
>> I can't find wall on colgate ... shutdown still broadcasts to all
>> terminals so how does it do it without wall ? maybe I just can't find
>> wall ????
ET> It probably just does it directly.
ET> There is a SysVinit package in the updates directory which includes wall
ET> and some missing man pages. See the Errata for details.
Speaking of 'wall'--I've cobbled together an NIS-aware version of
'rwall' (remote 'wall') that understands NIS netgroups and accepts
command-line arg's for things like send timeouts. It also handles
duplicate NIS entries for hosts and, unless overridden, will only
broadcast a message to each duplicated host once.
It's in: linux.nrao.edu:/pub/people/juphoff/nrwall/nrwall-0.3.tar.gz
I should probably do a quickie audit of this for any introduced security
holes (I hacked this together awhile ago, and I know of one potential
hole), fix the two lingering bugs that I know of, clean up the messy
code, and eventually put out a "contrib" RPM of it...it also needs a
man-page. (Type 'nrwall -h' for a usage summary.)
--Up.
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