Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 11:13:41 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Odhiambo Washington <wash@iconnect.co.ke>, rmasse@mastery.ca Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: email local users Message-ID: <14903.44613.362230.504308@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <79273951@toto.iv>
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Odhiambo Washington <wash@iconnect.co.ke> types:
> * Ryan Masse <rmasse@mastery.ca> [20001213 10:54]: writing on the subject 'email local users'
> =>is it possible with a single process to email every user on the box at once?
> =>if so how?
>
> The answer is YES and this is how one user on this list adviced and it worked
> for me.
>
> Follow these steps
>
> su
> cd /usr/local/bin
> create a file called update-userlist which contains the commands below:
> #!/bin/sh
> awk -F: '($3>999 && $3<65534) { print $1; }' /etc/passwd >/var/log/user.list
>
> save the file.
> chmod +x update-userlist
[etc]
If all your users have homes in /home (the default), and none of the
system ids have homes in /home (also the default), then you can do
by with "cd /home; mail *"
<mike
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