From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Mar 20 7:10:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from ns2.wananchi.com (ns2.wananchi.com [62.8.64.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC59D37B405 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 07:10:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from wash by ns2.wananchi.com with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (FreeBSD)) id 16nhjW-000Pup-00; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 18:10:34 +0300 Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 18:10:34 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: Jim Flowers Cc: FBSD-ISP Subject: Re: User Maanagement (Bulk Processing) Message-ID: <20020320151034.GM14038@ns2.wananchi.com> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , Jim Flowers , FBSD-ISP References: <20020320142100.GJ14038@ns2.wananchi.com> <20020320095005.M82852@ezo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020320095005.M82852@ezo.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i X-Disclaimer: Any views expressed in this message,where not explicitly attributed otherwise, are mine alone!. X-Fortune: "But officer, I was only trying to gain enough speed so I could coast to the nearest gas station." X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386 X-Best-Window-Manager: XFCE X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Designation: Systems Administrator, Wananchi Online Ltd. X-Location: Nairobi, KE, East Africa. X-Uptime: 6:09PM up 11 days, 2 hrs, 1 user, load averages: 2.32, 2.23, 2.18 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * Jim Flowers [20020320 17:49]: wrote: > users=`cat badusers.txt` > for user in $users; do > wol-suspend.sh $user > done > > and, no doubt, something similar to restore them. I must say this is just very brilliant! Thank you. I need to whack myself thoroughly for not thinking this way, yes? No, people are gifted with diff levels of thinking. > > > Hello people, > > > > Allow me to ask this because I work for an ISP ;-) Actually > > I am just seeking help from shell script gurus. I have a shell > > script that I use to suspend user accounts on my FreeBSD box. > > It works well for single user but there are time like now when > > I want to suspend over 400 users for non payment. I have another > > script that can do this but again the problem is my scripts > > are so crude they do not do any sensible checks . My bad. > > > > I am attaching the script - wol-suspend.sh Basically one of > > you gurus can be able to modify this script so that it takes > > a flat file (badusers.txt) which has one user per line and > > suspend all of them, yes?? I sincerely hate to do > > > > ./wol-suspend.sh userx > > ./wol-suspend.sh userb > > > > My insistence on this is because our Customer Service Executives > > will verify the user's status by doing > > > > finger userx > > > > and they'll see Plan: Suspended. > > > > Other than this, what tools do pepole use for such tasks? Someone > > willing to share what they have?? > > > > Thanking you. > > > > -Wash > > > > -- > > Odhiambo Washington "The box said 'Requires > > Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com Windows 95, NT, > > or better,' Tel: 254 2 313985-9 Fax: 254 2 313922 so > > I installed FreeBSD." GSM: 254 72 743 223 GSM: 254 733 > > 744 121 This sig is McQ! :-) > > > > ++ > > Kleptomaniac, n.: > > A rich thief. > > -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" > > > -- > Jim Flowers -Wash S y s t e m s A d m i n i s t r a t o r -- Odhiambo Washington /"\ RED Ribbon Campaign Wananchi Online Ltd., \ / Against AIDS. X "Help fight the scourge - Tel: 254 2 313 985-9 / \ use a condom if you _must_" ++ Q: How many Martians does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: One and a half. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message