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13.10 Talking to Other People

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wall(1) is a quick way to write a message to the users on a -system. The basic syntax is:

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wall doesn't have many features, and apart from letting your -users know that you're about to do some serious maintenance to the system, or even reboot -it, so they have time to save their work and log off :)

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Figure 13-7. Two users in a talk session

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If you specify just a username, the chat request is assumed to be local, so only local -users are queried. The ttyname is required if you want to ring a user on a specific -terminal (if the user is logged in more than once). The required information for talk can be obtained from the w(1) -command.

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