rwall with netgroup

Adam Carlson acarlson%laurel at math.umass.edu
Wed Jun 13 08:12:32 AEST 1990


Why does
Machine1_prompt> rwall machine2
Text to be broadcast
^D
Machine1_prompt>

work while

Machine1_prompt> more /etc/netgroup
organization (machine1,,) (machine2,,)
Machine1_prompt> rwall -n organization
Text to broadcast
^D
Machine1_prompt>

doesn't.

Machine1 and machine2 are both Sun 3/80's running SunOS 4.0.3 and are
in the same domain.



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