nsend - Send messages to users or groups


SYNOPSIS

       nsend  [ -h ] [ -S server ] [ -U user name ] [ -P password
       | -n ] [ -C ] [ -a ] -i objectID | -c connNum[,...] | {  [
       -t  recipient  type ] -o recipient name | recipient name }
       message


DESCRIPTION

       With nsend, you can send messages to the  user's  worksta­
       tions.

       nsend  looks  up  the  file $HOME/.nwclient to find a file
       server,  a  user  name  and  possibly  a   password.   See
       nwclient(5)  for  more  information.  Please note that the
       access permissions of .nwclient MUST be 0600, for security
       reasons.


OPTIONS

       recipient name
          recipient  name  is either the NetWare name of the user
          to receive the message or the name of an existing  user
          group  on  that  server.  You can use wildcards in this
          specification.

       -o recipient name
          Specifies recipient's name. This can  specify  user  or
          group.

       -t recipent type
          Specifies recipient's type.

       -c connNum[,...]
          Specifies connection numbers of recipients. You can use
          this option as workaround to deliver messages to direc­
          tory services users.

       -i userID
          Specifies  recipient's  object  ID.  You  can  use this
          option as workaround to deliver messages  to  directory
          services users.

       message
          message  is  the  message  to be sent. Please note that
          this has to be a single command line argument.  If  you
          want  to  send a message that contains spaces, you have
          to quote them on the command  line.   For  example,  to
          annoy your system administrator, you should try

             nsend supervisor 'I know how this works!'

          recipients name and type. If user is found, message  is
          sent  to  this user, if group is found, message is sent
          to this group. Other object types are  ignored.  If  no
          suitable  object  was  found  in this phase, connection
          list for specified object is  retrieved  (no  wildcards
          allowed)  and message is sent to this object (including
          print servers and so on). No  expansions  on  group  is
          done this time.

       -a
          By default, nsend prepends 'From ....' text to message.
          You can suppress this by adding -a to command line.

       -S server
          server is the name of the server you want to use.

       -U user name
          If the user name your NetWare administrator gave to you
          differs  from  your  unix user-id, you should use -U to
          tell the server about your NetWare user name.

       -P password
          You may want to  give  the  password  required  by  the
          server on the command line. You should be careful about
          using passwords in scripts.

       -n
          -n should be given if  specified  user  does  not  have
          password.

          If  neither  -n  nor  -P are given, nsend prompts for a
          password.

       -C
          By default, passwords are converted to uppercase before
          they  are  sent  to  the  server,  because most servers
          require this. You can turn off this conversion by -C.


BUGS

       Directory services connection are not supported yet.
       Options -c, -i and -o cannot be used together.
       If user is specified multiple times  (using  wildcards  in
       group  specification  or  by repeating same number in -c),
       message is delivered multiple times to him.


SEE ALSO

       nwclient(5),     nprint(1),     slist(1),     ncpmount(8),
       ncpumount(8)

       nsend  was  written  by looking at mars_nwe's message han­
       dling. Thanks to Martin Stover <mstover@freeway.de>.
       Support  for  Netware   groups   by   Philippe   Andersson
       <philippe_andersson@ste.scitex.com>.
       Support for connections greater than 255 by Petr Vandrovec
       <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>.


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