It seems to me that one thing to do is to raise the limit and make sure
that you delete old bulletins that new users wouldn't be interested in.
(which you seem to do anyways).
If you normally only keep the 5 bulletins in the bull directory
anyways, there's no reason to hard-code an administrative preference
into the program. all it does is make life hard on you when things
demand a different approach.
Another thing to do would be to do like Jason says and simply mail the
welcome message(s) to the new users. You could then save the bulletins
for more immediate issues. This might allow you to set a lower max-
bulletin count and simply leave old bulletins around (for posterity).
(Either that, or set the max count high and only have 'active'
bulletins in the directory).
Jason Englander wrote:
>
> On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Kip Turk wrote:
>
> > Is there a simple way to keep a standard "Welcome" bulletin that users see
> > the first time they log-in, but still limit the number of bulletins a user
> > gets? We plan to use the bulletins for schedule and maintenance
> > notifications, but we don't want a new user to see bulletins that are out
> > of date. I've currently limited the bulletins to 5, so this is my initial
> > "solution".
> >
> > 001.welcome - contains the obvious intro's to our system
> > 002.maintenance
> > 003.schedule
> > 004.whatever
> > 005.other_stuff
> >
> > At this point, the users would have what I want. But when I need to add a
> > new bulletin (006.more), a user added would no longer see the welcome
> > message. So I copy 001 --> 002. This functions correctly, but is there a
> > less admin-intensive method for doing this?
>
> useradd -a -b -c joeschmo
> cat welcome_msg.txt | mail -s "Welcome to our system" joeschmo
>
> [ don't do the welcome message with a bulletin, just mail it to them ]
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