From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 18 6:22:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from boat.mail.pipex.net (our.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BC9BA37B479 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 06:22:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 17095 invoked from network); 18 Oct 2000 13:22:23 -0000 Received: from mailhost.puck.pipex.net (HELO mailhost.uk.internal) (194.130.147.54) by our.mail.pipex.net with SMTP; 18 Oct 2000 13:22:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 17692 invoked from network); 18 Oct 2000 13:22:22 -0000 Received: from camgate2.cam.uk.internal (172.31.6.21) by mailhost.uk.internal with SMTP; 18 Oct 2000 13:22:22 -0000 Received: by camgate2.cam.uk.internal with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id <48RBLVAH>; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 14:21:22 +0100 Message-ID: From: Daniel Bye To: 'Colin Jack' , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Mailing Users Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 14:16:02 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yup, use wall, instead of e-mail. It flashes the users' terminal, and cat's a file out for them to read. man wall for more details. shutdown also sends broadcast messages to all logged-in users - a handy feature for scheduled reboots etc. Dan > -----Original Message----- > From: Colin Jack [mailto:colin@mainline.co.uk] > Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 2:17 PM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Mailing Users > > > 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