rwall(1)

rwall1

Send a message to users logged on a host

Usage

rwall host [file]

Overview

The rwall command sends a message to the users logged into the specified host. The message to be sent can be typed in and terminated with EOF or it can be in a file.

Diagnostics

rwall: RPC: Program not registered

The rpc.rwalld(8) daemon has not been started on the remote host.

rwall: RPC: Timed out

A communication error occurred. Either the network is excessively congested, or the rpc.rwalld(8) daemon has terminated on the remote host.

rwall: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Timed out

The remote host is not running the portmapper (see rpcbind(8)), and cannot accommodate any RPC-based services. The host may be down.

Releases

87 releases since FreeBSD 2.0.5-RELEASE; the text changed 46 times.

  1. 2.0.5
  2. 2.1.5–2.1.7.1
  3. 2.2.2
  4. 2.2.5–2.2.8
  5. 2.2.9
  6. 3.0–3.2
  7. 3.3–3.4
  8. 3.5–3.5.1
  9. 4.0
  10. 4.1–4.2
  11. 4.3
  12. 4.4–4.11
  13. 5.0–5.2.1
  14. 5.3–6.3
  15. 6.4
  16. 7.0
  17. 7.1
  18. 7.2
  19. 7.3
  20. 7.4
  21. 8.0
  22. 8.1
  23. 8.2
  24. 8.3
  25. 8.4
  26. 9.0
  27. 9.1
  28. 9.2
  29. 9.3
  30. 10.0
  31. 10.1
  32. 10.2
  33. 10.3
  34. 10.4
  35. 11.0
  36. 11.1
  37. 11.2
  38. 11.3
  39. 11.4
  40. 12.0
  41. 12.1
  42. 12.2
  43. 12.3
  44. 12.4
  45. 13.0–13.2
  46. 13.3–14.5
  47. 15.0–16.0

History

The rwall command appeared in Sun-OS.

Bugs

The sorting options are not implemented.

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.