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  From: Freeman, Peter (ERHS) <Freeman.Peter@saugov.sa.gov.au>
  To  : Daryl Tester <dt@picknowl.com.au>
  Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 00:00:00 +1030

RE:

Thanks Daryl
It's all working very well right now, I've strung a few scripts together to
make user & homedir creation a bit easier.
Webmin's custom commands are quite good, they allow you to put a parameter
(or 2 or 3) and pass them to scripts, so type in the username
& they get a home directory, permission changes to suit & get put in the
necessary groups, all in less than a second.
Last time I did all that with NT it took a liiiiittle bit longer!!
Cheers

Peter Freeman
Computing Support Officer
Eyre Regional Health Service

C/- Port Lincoln Health Services
Oxford Terrace
PORT LINCOLN  SA  5606

Phone:	8683 2055
Fax:		8682 6947
Mobile:	0417 814 749
Email: 	Freeman.Peter@saugov.sa.gov.au
<mailto:Freeman.Peter@saugov.sa.gov.au> 

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		-----Original Message-----
		From:	Daryl Tester [mailto:dt@picknowl.com.au]
		Sent:	Saturday, 18 November 2000 2:37 PM
		To:	Freeman, Peter (ERHS)
		Subject:	Re: 

		Sorry Peter - I didn't see this until now, because of the
null
		subject line (it got threaded with a really old message, and
		I have ~2500 emails in my inbox at the moment).

		"Freeman, Peter (ERHS)" wrote:

		> Here's my modification to it, but it gives the following
errors:
		> --Unexpected EOF while looking for `''
		> --Line 9: syntax error
		> It has me a bit confused, cause there's only 8 lines!

		That's because it's looking for something, and fell of the
end of
		the file looking for it.

		> I'm sure the syntax is probably up the creek, but I'm not
sure where.
		> (script newbies are a pain aren't they!)
		> TIA
		> 
		> #!/bin/sh
		> 
		> awk -F:`
		> {
		>         # Build the option line for useradd
		>         opt = "-u " $2 "" $1
		>         system("useradd -n -c -M -d /dev/null -s
/bin/false " opt)
		> }' /home/fred/smbpasswd

		Easy.  "-F:`" should read "-F: '".  No matching backtick
(which you
		didn't want anyway). (and you've probably solved this by now
...)


		-- 
		Regards,
		  Daryl Tester,  Software Wrangler and Bit Herder, IOCANE
Pty. Ltd.

		"MS Linux is released under the provisions of the Gates
Private License, which
		 means you can freely use this Software on a single machine
without warranty
		 after having paid the purchase price and annual renewal
fees." -- mslinux.org

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