Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!husc6!rice!sun-spots-request From: tr@ctt.bellcore.com (tom reingold) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: rwall bug? Message-ID: <13737@bellcore.bellcore.com> Date: 10 Feb 89 07:52:24 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Bellcore, Piscataway, Noo Joizy Lines: 20 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: 30 Jan 89 13:58:27 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 149, message 7 of 13 [Posting to comp.sys.sun and comp.unix.wizards] As a system administrator of a few dozen systems, I have used the "rwall" command to notify users of the shutting down of systems. It seems that there is a horrible bug that is rather embarrassing. It sends my message to all systems on the Internet that it can reach within a short timeout period. Thank goodness the period is short, but I have received mail from various parts of the country saying that my message of shutdowns was received. What am I doing wrong? I used the command "rwall -n " where is defined in my /etc/netgroup file. The result seems to be the same, whether I use a machine using Sun OS 3.4, Sun OS 4.0 or Pyramid's version of Unix. Tom Reingold INTERNET: tr@bellcore.bellcore.com Bell Communications Research UUCP: bellcore!tr 444 Hoes La room 1H217 PHONE: (201) 829-4622 [work], Piscataway, NJ 08854 (201) 287-2345 [home]