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Re: quick unix question

From: Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>
To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: quick unix question
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 19:25:13 -0400

on Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 06:35:27PM -0400, Kate Johnson wrote:
>
> I need to reboot a server. What is the syntax to send a message to user
> screens telling them to logoff now?

If you do 'shutdown -h now' it will do a wall(1) saying something to
that effect, anyway. But you can do a wall(1), a la:

prompt$ wall
Hey, you bozos! Log off now!
^D
prompt$

hth,
Steve

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quick unix question, Kate Johnson, 07/01/2002
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: quick unix question, Steven Champeon, 07/01/2002
- Re: quick unix question, Michael D. Thomas, 07/01/2002
- Re: quick unix question, David R. Matusiak, 07/02/2002
- Re: quick unix question, Gina Norman, 07/02/2002
- Re: quick unix question, Bill Geschwind, 07/02/2002
- Re: quick unix question, Josep L. Guallar-Esteve, 07/02/2002
- Re: quick unix question, Paul Jones, 07/02/2002
- Re: quick unix question, Kate Johnson, 07/02/2002
- Re: quick unix question, Josep L. Guallar-Esteve, 07/02/2002