Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 17:14:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net> To: Colin Jack <colin@mainline.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mailing Users Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010181706090.280-100000@bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de> In-Reply-To: <ABEBLEJCDMCJJBELODOEAEMDCHAA.colin@mainline.co.uk>
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On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Colin Jack 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 :-)
A lot of people told you how to write messages to those logged in,
which might serve your needs, but if you definately would rather send
a mail to all your users, you can make an alias in /etc/mail/aliases:
all.users: :include:/var/log/user.list
or whatever, and then just have a cronjob that updates this file every
night or so which does something like:
awk -F: '($3>999 && $3<65534) { print $1; }' /etc/passwd > /var/log/user.list
-Paul.
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