How To Install rwall-server on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install rwall-server in Fedora 36. rwall-server is Server for sending messages to a host’s logged in users

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rwall-server on Fedora 36.

What is rwall-server

The rwall command sends a message to all of the users logged into a specified host. The rwall-server package contains the daemon for receiving such messages, and is disabled by default on Red Hat Linux systems (it can be very annoying to keep getting all those messages when you’re trying to play Quake–I mean, trying to get some work done). Install rwall-server if you’d like the ability to receive messages from users on remote hosts.

We can use yum or dnf to install rwall-server on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rwall-server.

Install rwall-server on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install rwall-server using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install rwall-server

Install rwall-server on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install rwall-server using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rwall-server

How To Uninstall rwall-server on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the rwall-server package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove rwall-server

rwall-server Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3a
/usr/lib/.build-id/3a/314ab9785ed81b53fc69a29b19ce805ec491d5
/usr/lib/systemd/system/rwalld.service
/usr/sbin/rpc.rwalld
/usr/share/man/man8/rpc.rwalld.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/rwalld.8.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install rwall-server on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).