# Script for sending welcome message in background

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [January 24, 2025, 7:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/script-for-sending-welcome-message-in-background/348879 "2025-01-24T19:06:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 10:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/script-for-sending-welcome-message-in-background/348879/4 "2025-01-24T22:19:40Z")

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> [@Jacob\_Peebles](#):
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> We would like to send this though from an admin with a profile rather than ‘system’, I assume that’s possible?

~~Yes, just replace `system` with the desired username in the script.~~  
Sorry, I skimmed the code, there is no `system` to replace, so it must be done another way.

You’ll probably want to use a session manager like [screen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Screen) or [tmux](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tmux) so your script can run in the background.

I assume you’ll also want to be able stop the script when desired and restart it later from the user it stopped at.

Since I’m not a programmer (I mean, besides printing `hello world`…), I’ll let others give advice on how to set up this feature properly, as well as safely managing the sending to millions of users 😄

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