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Date:      Wed, 18 Oct 2000 08:42:16 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com>
To:        Colin Jack <colin@mainline.co.uk>
Cc:        Gus Mueller <gus@mu.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Mailing Users
Message-ID:  <39EDC4D8.7C86AD20@urx.com>
References:  <ABEBLEJCDMCJJBELODOEGEMECHAA.colin@mainline.co.uk>

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Colin Jack wrote:
> 
> 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?

I always thought that was one of the purposes of /etc/motd. You can
add your scheduled maintenance in there and revert back it to your
standard login message after the shutdown.

Kent

> 
> 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
> >
> >
> >
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