Broadcast Message from root

[Scunningham99]

Hi All

I have 3 sun solaris servers runnig 5.6

When i shut server A down using #shutdown -g0 -i6 -y
I am receiving message on server B, how can i stop this. I just want the server to output the mesg on the server i am shutting down!!!

#Broadcast Message from root (rpc.rwalld) on lsi Wed Jan 16
1...
From root@lsi: THE SYSTEM IS BEING SHUT DOWN NOW !!!
Log off now or risk your files being damaged.

Any clues?!?!?!?!

SY

 

[lumberg]

An immediate solution would be to disable rwalld in machine B's inetd.conf. You probably never use rwall.

 

[Scunningham99]

Would this mean i would not get any more wall messages on server b. Say if i was to shut down server b. would i get a mesg???

sy

 

[marrow]

If I am on System B and have for example a telnet seesion to System A then I will get the warning message. I assume you don't get any messages on System C.

If you use the reboot or init 6 command then System B is chopped without warning. But then System A doesn't either.

However it looks like the /etc/shutdown script contains relevent details, but I wouldn't want to play with it!

 

[Scunningham99]

Do I simply rem out the following line in etc/inetd.conf

# The rwall server allows others to post messages to users on this machine.
#
walld/1 tli rpc/datagram_v wait root /usr/lib/netsvc/rwall/rpc.rwal
ld rpc.rwalld

 

[lumberg]

yes that should do it