BIRTHDAYS
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: Wed Jul 18, 1990
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NAME
birthdays - birthday notifier
SYNOPSIS
birthdays
[
-n
]
mailing-list ...
DESCRIPTION
birthdays
scans through the
GNU Finger
user database examining the Birth Date field and sends a Happy
Birthday message to those users who are having one. (Users having an
Unhappy Birthday are not mailed to.)
If optional arguments
mailing-list
exist, then each one is mailed a notification message explaining whose
birthday it is. This is most useful if
mailing-list
is really a mailing list, so that a reasonable number of people can be
notified of their co-workers birthdays.
If
birthdays
is passed the
-n
switch, then no mailing is done; rather, the list of people who are
having a birthday is printed to the stdout.
Birthdays
is best run from within a crontab; it only should run once a day.
Here is an example crontab entry:
0 4 * * * root /usr/local/bin/birthdays bday-list@random.cs.edu
AUTHOR
The GNU version of
birthdays
was written by Brian Fox, inspired by a similar program at the MIT AI
Lab.
SEE ALSO
makeusers(1), edituser(1), mkpasswd(1)
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