Subject: Re: shutdown/wall messages
To: Craig M. Chase <chase@ece.utexas.edu>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: current-users
Date: 12/18/1995 21:03:55
"Craig M. Chase" writes:
> I'm using NetBSD on my file server (Pentium-100, works great).
> However, when I do need to shutdown, the wall messages are sent only
> to local users (people logged directly into orac).
> 
> Is it possible to have the shutdown messages forwarded to all machines
> who NFS mount my filesystems?  I think the SunOS shutdown did this
> (perhaps the only thing about SunOS that I miss).

You can use rwall for this application, though our shutdown doesn't do
it automatically. However, you *can* write a script to perform the
task very easily -- the machines mounting your system are easy to find
out...

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