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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Automated e-mailer problem Post 302708615 by jim mcnamara on Monday 1st of October 2012 10:25:11 PM

10-01-2012

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assuming that sendmail -t $tmp does work to send email. I do not see where the $uid variable gets used to address email. Oh well.
bash or ksh example using your code fragment:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
cnt=0;
for uid in $members
do
   sendmail -t  < $tmp
   cnt=$(( $cnt + 1 ))
   [  $(( $cnt % 15 )) -eq 0 ]   && wait
done 
wait

This sends 15 at one pass. You may have exceeded resource limits trying to send hundreds of emails at one time. I agree with corona -sometimes we have requirements that are there for a really poor reasons. Why is there a major time constraint on this job? Or are you simply learning how to do this?

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mailer

MAILER(8)						      System Manager's Manual							 MAILER(8)

NAME

       mailer - script to warn users about their weak passwords

SYNOPSIS

       mailer password-files

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page  documents  briefly  the mailer command, which is part of the john package.  This manual page was written for the Debian
       GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.  john, better known as John the Ripper, is a tool to  find
       weak passwords of users in a server.
       The mailer tool is useful to inform users which have been found to be using weak passwords by mail.

       You  should edit the message mailer will send to the users, but remember to copy the script to a safe place before editing it, as it's gen-
       erally a bad idea to modify things living in /usr.

SEE ALSO

       john(8), unafs(8), unique(8), unshadow(8).

       The programs are documented fully by John's documentation, which should be available in /usr/share/doc/john or other location, depending on
       your system.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
       John the Ripper and mailer were written by Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com>. The complete list of contributors can be found in the CRED-
       ITS file in the documentation directory.

john								   June 03, 2004							 MAILER(8)