HP-UX Reference (11i v2 03/08) - 1M System Administration Commands N-Z (vol 4)

rwalld(1M) rwalld(1M)

NAME

rwalld - network rwall server

SYNOPSIS

/usr/lib/netsvc/rwall/rpc.rwalld

[-l log_ﬁle][-e-n

]

DESCRIPTION

rwalld is an RPC server that handles

rwall requests (see rwall(1)). rwalld calls wall to send a

message to all users logged into the host on which

rwalld is running (see wall(1)).

inetd invokes rwalld through /etc/inetd.conf

(see inetd(1M)).

Options

rwalld recognizes the following options and command-line options:

-l log_file Log any errors to log_ﬁle. Errors are not logged if the

-l option is not speciﬁed.

Information logged to the log ﬁle includes date and time of the error, the host name,

process ID and name of the function generating the error, and the error message.

Note that different services can share a single log ﬁle because enough information is

included to uniquely identify each error.

-e Exit after serving each RPC request. Using the -e option, the inetd security ﬁle

/var/adm/inetd.sec

can control access to RPC services.

-n Exit only if:

•

portmap dies (see portmap (1M)),

• another

rpc.rwalld registers with portmap,or

•

rpc.rwalld becomes unregistered with portmap.

The

-n option is more efﬁcient because a new process is not launched for each RPC request. Note, this

option is the default.

AUTHOR

rwalld was developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.