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From: elkins@topaz.rutgers.edu (George Elkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: rwall and shutdown
Message-ID: <Aug.20.00.22.13.1989.369@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Date: 20 Aug 89 04:22:14 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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Is there an easy way to make the shutdown script automatically
warn users an all machines that have mounted exported
file systems that the machine is going down?  I have
seen this on Suns, but I haven't seen it done with
the Iris 4D.  The present shutdown script uses only the wall
command.  Do I have to rewrite shutdown so that it reads
/etc/rmtab (or whatever is appropriate) and broadcasts using
the rwall command?

thanks,
George Elkins