Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 12:09:21 -0400 From: "Potts, Ross" <rpotts@harris.com> To: 'Colin Jack' <colin@mainline.co.uk>, Gus Mueller <gus@mu.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Mailing Users Message-ID: <95B669A7D872D41182A600508BDFFB8C12D5BC@mlbmx7.ess.harris.com>
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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 > > > > > > > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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