How To Install rwall on Fedora 34

rwall is Client for sending messages to a host’s logged in users

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rwall on Fedora 34.

What is `rwall`

The rwall command sends a message to all of the users logged into a specified host. Actually, your machine’s rwall client sends the message to the rwall daemon running on the specified host, and the rwall daemon relays the message to all of the users logged in to that host. Install rwall if you’d like the ability to send messages to users logged in to a specified host machine.

We can use yum or dnf to install rwall on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rwall.

Install rwall on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install rwall

Install rwall on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo yum -y install rwall

How To Uninstall rwall on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove rwall

rwall Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/rwall
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/67
/usr/lib/.build-id/67/a892aa7dd22c5eef392b8d1ab871adbbfe2e1e
/usr/share/man/man1/rwall.1.gz

References

rwall website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install rwall on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.