RE: New Broadcast Message!!!
Adrian: Thanks. I will pass this info along to the technical personal to try it. Kirti -Original Message- From: Adrian Ho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 6:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: New Broadcast Message!!! On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Kirti S. Bajwa wrote : Rolf vd Breemer : Wrote.. If you're using Maildir's, you could just do mail * blablabla in /home. Rolf: Call me stupid, but I have no idea what you are recommending. I am a newbie in qmail. Can you be little more specific? Yes, I I am using Maildir. It's nothing to do with qmail, and everything to do with letting your shell do the hard work. Rolf's assuming that all the users in question have their home directories rooted in /home (ie. /home/bob, /home/alice, /home/greg, etc.). If that's the case, then Rolf's saying the following will work: $ cd /home $ mail -s Shutdown Announcement * EOF Dear Users, This is a shutdown announcement blah blah blah. EOF (Substitute the actual home dir root for /home if it's different for you.) -- Adrian Ho [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New Broadcast Message!!!
Kirti S. Bajwa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You are plain rude. And you are plain stupid. Sometimes it's fun to watch you but mostly it's only painful to read your bullshit. Start to learn the basics, show that you have tried things before asking - then people will start to take you more seriously. At the moment you are a clown at best. And for free a cited comment from Dan: This is Unix. Stop acting so helpless. Frank
Re: New Broadcast Message!!!
Kirti S. Bajwa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Our company has a mail server. It has RH 6.2 and Qmail 1.3 and very much
else. This server serves to about 200 email addresses. We need to install a
patch which will require the system to be re-booted. Therefore, we would
like to send an email message to all the emails addresses on our company's
mail server, informing them of coming re-boot. Any suggestion??
It's already been suggested that you create a mailing list containing
all users. Is that unacceptable for some reason?
Here's a quick and dirty method:
$ awk -F: '{print $1}' /etc/passwd ~/.qmail-all-users
$ #optional: edit ~/.qmail-all-users, remove system accounts
$ cat msg MSG
From: kbajwa
To: kbajwa-all-users
Subject: Reboot
blah blah blah
MSG
$ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject msg
$
-Dave
RE: New Broadcast Message!!!
There is always... To: Everybody *@*.* That sends email to everyone in the world! (Yes, I am just kidding! However, I got a double bounce the other day with this as the address... I actually got a good laugh out of it! :) -Original Message- From: Kirti S. Bajwa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 8:18 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: New Broadcast Message!!! Hi All: Previously I posted a message under heading Broadcast Message and got some good suggestions. I also got a response whereas the person responding thought that I was try to send spam. After reading my original posting, I think I need to clarify what I am doing and what I need (previously I did not do it to keep the message short). So here is the question: Our company has a mail server. It has RH 6.2 and Qmail 1.3 and very much else. This server serves to about 200 email addresses. We need to install a patch which will require the system to be re-booted. Therefore, we would like to send an email message to all the emails addresses on our company's mail server, informing them of coming re-boot. Any suggestion?? Kirti
Re: New Broadcast Message!!!
Why do you have to notify them.plus as a general rult of thumb any major upgrades should be done in the early morning when nobody's using the system. Why have 200 people asking why outlook pops up an stupid error message when you don't have to :-) what are you patching? the only thing we have to reboot for is hardware replacement and new kernels..everything else can be patched or compiled withoug rebooting. ~kurth Kurth Bemis Senior Network Admin/Owner: USAExpress.net Owner: Ozone Computer http://kurth.hardcrypto.com PGP Key Avail. - Uh!.Uh!.Uh!.I'm done with thisOut the window On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Kirti S. Bajwa wrote: Hi All: Previously I posted a message under heading Broadcast Message and got some good suggestions. I also got a response whereas the person responding thought that I was try to send spam. After reading my original posting, I think I need to clarify what I am doing and what I need (previously I did not do it to keep the message short). So here is the question: Our company has a mail server. It has RH 6.2 and Qmail 1.3 and very much else. This server serves to about 200 email addresses. We need to install a patch which will require the system to be re-booted. Therefore, we would like to send an email message to all the emails addresses on our company's mail server, informing them of coming re-boot. Any suggestion?? Kirti
RE: New Broadcast Message!!!
Jason: There is nothing wrong with your suggestion, except both your suggestion and this posting arrived at the same time. Kirti -Original Message- From: Jason Kawaja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 7:10 AM To: Kirti S. Bajwa Subject: Re: New Broadcast Message!!! What was wrong with my suggestion? On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Kirti S. Bajwa wrote: Hi All: Previously I posted a message under heading Broadcast Message and got some good suggestions. I also got a response whereas the person responding thought that I was try to send spam. After reading my original posting, I think I need to clarify what I am doing and what I need (previously I did not do it to keep the message short). So here is the question: Our company has a mail server. It has RH 6.2 and Qmail 1.3 and very much else. This server serves to about 200 email addresses. We need to install a patch which will require the system to be re-booted. Therefore, we would like to send an email message to all the emails addresses on our company's mail server, informing them of coming re-boot. Any suggestion?? Kirti /* Regards, Jason Kawaja, UF-ECE Sys Admin */
Re: New Broadcast Message!!!
If you're using Maildir's, you could just do mail * blablabla in /home. - Original Message - From: Kirti S. Bajwa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 3:17 PM Subject: New Broadcast Message!!! | Hi All: | | Previously I posted a message under heading Broadcast Message and got some | good suggestions. I also got a response whereas the person responding | thought that I was try to send spam. After reading my original posting, I | think I need to clarify what I am doing and what I need (previously I did | not do it to keep the message short). So here is the question: | | Our company has a mail server. It has RH 6.2 and Qmail 1.3 and very much | else. This server serves to about 200 email addresses. We need to install a | patch which will require the system to be re-booted. Therefore, we would | like to send an email message to all the emails addresses on our company's | mail server, informing them of coming re-boot. Any suggestion?? | | Kirti |
RE: New Broadcast Message!!!
Kurth: Why do you have to notify them... You got me there, so I had to ask. The machine which is handling qmail also has a modem card (96 ports) where people dial-in. A patch is being installed into the modem software. It seems that most of the people are constantly logged into this machine. Now do not ask me why? It does not matter when the updates are done, the management still would like to inform people, several times, before the system is re-booted. Just say good service. Any suggestions. Kirti -Original Message- From: Kurth Bemis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 7:11 AM To: Kirti S. Bajwa Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: New Broadcast Message!!! Why do you have to notify them.plus as a general rult of thumb any major upgrades should be done in the early morning when nobody's using the system. Why have 200 people asking why outlook pops up an stupid error message when you don't have to :-) what are you patching? the only thing we have to reboot for is hardware replacement and new kernels..everything else can be patched or compiled withoug rebooting. ~kurth Kurth Bemis Senior Network Admin/Owner: USAExpress.net Owner: Ozone Computer http://kurth.hardcrypto.com PGP Key Avail. - Uh!.Uh!.Uh!.I'm done with thisOut the window On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Kirti S. Bajwa wrote: Hi All: Previously I posted a message under heading Broadcast Message and got some good suggestions. I also got a response whereas the person responding thought that I was try to send spam. After reading my original posting, I think I need to clarify what I am doing and what I need (previously I did not do it to keep the message short). So here is the question: Our company has a mail server. It has RH 6.2 and Qmail 1.3 and very much else. This server serves to about 200 email addresses. We need to install a patch which will require the system to be re-booted. Therefore, we would like to send an email message to all the emails addresses on our company's mail server, informing them of coming re-boot. Any suggestion?? Kirti
RE: New Broadcast Message!!!
Rolf vd Breemer : Wrote.. If you're using Maildir's, you could just do mail * blablabla in /home. Rolf: Call me stupid, but I have no idea what you are recommending. I am a newbie in qmail. Can you be little more specific? Yes, I I am using Maildir. Kirti -Original Message- From: Rolf vd Breemer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 8:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New Broadcast Message!!! This message uses a character set that is not supported by the Internet Service. To view the original message content, open the attached message. If the text doesn't display correctly, save the attachment to disk, and then open it using a viewer that can display the original character set.
RE: New Broadcast Message!!!
Kirti S. Bajwa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... It does not matter when the updates are done, the management still would like to inform people, several times, before the system is re-booted. Just say good service. Any suggestions. Tap, tap, tap. Is this thing on? You've received several suggestions. You've not responded to any of them. You keep acting like you've never seen them. I'm done trying, Kirti. -Dave
RE: New Broadcast Message!!!
Dave: I have received two suggestions. The following response was to a question which somebody answered. Yes I did not respond to two GOOD suggestion. I have not tried them. Additionally, why to add more traffic to this list when it is not absolute necessary. (I do not think this response was necessary either, but you insisted) Kirti -Original Message- From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 12:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: New Broadcast Message!!! Kirti S. Bajwa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... It does not matter when the updates are done, the management still would like to inform people, several times, before the system is re-booted. Just say good service. Any suggestions. Tap, tap, tap. Is this thing on? You've received several suggestions. You've not responded to any of them. You keep acting like you've never seen them. I'm done trying, Kirti. -Dave
Re: New Broadcast Message!!!
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 05:35:59PM -0400, Kirti S. Bajwa wrote: Yes I did not respond to two GOOD suggestion. I have not tried them. AAARGH! Try them instead of wasting bandwidth here. Additionally, why to add more traffic to this list when it is not absolute necessary. WHO is wasting bandwidth here?! -Original Message- WHO you said was wasting bandwidth?? -- * Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.bsws.de * * Roedingsmarkt 14, 20459 Hamburg, Germany * Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
Re: New Broadcast Message!!!
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 01:41:39AM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 05:35:59PM -0400, Kirti S. Bajwa wrote: Yes I did not respond to two GOOD suggestion. I have not tried them. AAARGH! Try them instead of wasting bandwidth here. Additionally, why to add more traffic to this list when it is not absolute necessary. WHO is wasting bandwidth here?! -Original Message- WHO you said was wasting bandwidth?? I can't believe you people haven't filtered this troll yet. He's been in my filters for months now. --Adam
RE: New Broadcast Message!!!
Henning: Sometimes I wonder if nastiness is your middle name. You seem to inflame everybody. Why don't you use your brain instead of keyboard. Example: AAARGH! Try them instead of wasting bandwidth here. Did you use your brain to figure out that your response did not add anything. Did you read what why posted the message!! WHO is wasting bandwidth here?! Look in the mirror. - You are plain rude. Do you know how many people have told you so on this list. Why don't you just stop? Do you know how many people have decided to leave this list because of your daily rudeness. Is this your form of entertainment? Kirti -Original Message- From: Henning Brauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 4:42 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: New Broadcast Message!!! On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 05:35:59PM -0400, Kirti S. Bajwa wrote: Yes I did not respond to two GOOD suggestion. I have not tried them. AAARGH! Try them instead of wasting bandwidth here. Additionally, why to add more traffic to this list when it is not absolute necessary. WHO is wasting bandwidth here?! -Original Message- WHO you said was wasting bandwidth?? -- * Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.bsws.de * * Roedingsmarkt 14, 20459 Hamburg, Germany * Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
RE: New Broadcast Message!!!
On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Kirti S. Bajwa wrote: Rolf vd Breemer : Wrote.. If you're using Maildir's, you could just do mail * blablabla in /home. Rolf: Call me stupid, but I have no idea what you are recommending. I am a newbie in qmail. Can you be little more specific? Yes, I I am using Maildir. It's nothing to do with qmail, and everything to do with letting your shell do the hard work. Rolf's assuming that all the users in question have their home directories rooted in /home (ie. /home/bob, /home/alice, /home/greg, etc.). If that's the case, then Rolf's saying the following will work: $ cd /home $ mail -s Shutdown Announcement * EOF Dear Users, This is a shutdown announcement blah blah blah. EOF (Substitute the actual home dir root for /home if it's different for you.) -- Adrian Ho [EMAIL PROTECTED]
