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From: "Potts, Ross" <rpotts@harris.com>
To: 'Colin Jack' <colin@mainline.co.uk>, Gus Mueller <gus@mu.org>,
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Subject: RE: Mailing Users
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 12:09:21 -0400
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Or for that matter you could awk the first field in /etc/passwd

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Colin Jack [SMTP:colin@mainline.co.uk]
> Sent:	Wednesday, October 18, 2000 9:33 AM
> To:	Gus Mueller; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject:	RE: Mailing Users
> 
> 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
> >
> >
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