Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 22:02:13 +0100 From: "Colin Jack" <colin@mainline.co.uk> To: <kstewart@urx.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Mailing Users Message-ID: <ABEBLEJCDMCJJBELODOEAEOECHAA.colin@mainline.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <39EDC4D8.7C86AD20@urx.com>
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We're talking POP clients here - that's why it needs to be an email message. I've had a couple of pretty cool suggestions which I'm running with Colin -----Original Message----- From: Kent Stewart [mailto:kstewart@urx.com] Sent: 18 October 2000 16:42 To: Colin Jack Cc: Gus Mueller; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mailing Users 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 > > > > > > > > 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 -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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