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From: ian@john-richard.co.uk (Ian Peattie)
Subject: Re: bulk mailer from root
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 09:09:53 GMT
References: <3B32DD21.97FD0073@wnclink.com> 

In article <3B32DD21.97FD0073@wnclink.com>, Gary <baja1@wnclink.com> wrote:
>Does anyone have a mail script to send mail to all the users in the
>passwd file on openserver?  I would like to have it to send maintance
>and update notices.

One way to get a list of all the users in /etc/passwd is:

   awk -F: '{print $1}' /etc/passwd

You can feed that into xargs to send them all mail. Note that not every 
'user' is actually a person, so you might when to strip out the low uid 
numbers.

If your users use pop3 to collect their mail, you might want to look at 
the bulletin feature of popper as an alternative.

   Ian.

-- 
Ian Peattie                             ian@john-richard.co.uk
Edinburgh, Scotland.

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