How To Install rwall-server on Fedora 36
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/).