From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 18 8:42:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B273937B479 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 08:42:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA02696; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 08:42:16 -0700 Message-ID: <39EDC4D8.7C86AD20@urx.com> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 08:42:16 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Colin Jack Cc: Gus Mueller , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mailing Users References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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