From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 18 6:36: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from zog.mainline.co.uk (zog.mainline.co.uk [212.158.6.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC2D737B4D7 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 06:35:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from intergraph ([212.158.6.226]) by zog.mainline.co.uk (8.9.2/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA23676; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 14:35:54 +0100 (BST) From: "Colin Jack" To: "Gus Mueller" , Subject: RE: Mailing Users Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 14:33:06 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20001018082258.A71344@elvis.mu.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG That's quite a cool idea - except that my perl skills are VERY limited :-) ... You aren't aware of anything like this any of the online script libraries are you? Colin -----Original Message----- From: gus@elvis.mu.org [mailto:gus@elvis.mu.org]On Behalf Of Gus Mueller Sent: 18 October 2000 14:23 To: Colin Jack Subject: Re: Mailing Users You could write a little perl script that looks at /etc/passwd and sends an emamil for each entry in there. -gus Colin Jack (colin@mainline.co.uk) wrote: > I am a relative newbie to freebsd, so please bear with me. > > Is there a way that I can send an email to all users on a server? The idea > is to warn everyone of downtime for maintenance, but with a couple of > hundred users .... there HAS to be an easy way :-) > > Thanks > > Colin > > Colin Jack > Webmaster - Mainline Internet > colin@mainline.co.uk > http://www.mainline.co.uk > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message