Sending a Broadcast Message to All Users on a Unix Network

Broadcast a Message on Unix Network !

This is a simple tutorial in the Unix / Linux environment, to broadcast a message to all the users logged into that machine or network. You can even direct the message to a particular user by giving additional options. So here's how it goes.

Owning a Chat Server !

Setting Up Our Own Chat Service

You have been Chatting and using Instant Messaging applications for quite a time, right ?. So How about setting up your own chat server ? You will have full monopoly over the messaging. Or just for fun ?

We will be using Openfire, a multi-platform, open source XMPP(Extensive Messaging and Presence Protocol) server written in JAVA and Spark collaboration client. So here it goes.