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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Trond Endrestol <trond@dontpanic.gtf.ol.no>
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Subject: Re: Is @ allowed within /etc/adduser.message? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 04 Nov 1999 11:40:13 +0100."
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On Thu, 04 Nov 1999 11:40:13 +0100, Trond Endrestol wrote:

> I want to include a couple of email addresses in the /etc/adduser.message
> file.

I suspect that adduser, which is a perl script, thinks that the @ signs
introduce perl lists. Try escaping them with baskslashes (``\'').

	Har du noen spXXXl kan de gjerne stilles til pil\@gtf.ol.no
	eller til trond\@gtf.ol.no.

Ciao,
Sheldon.

PS: Ignore the XXX -- my mailer doesn't deal well with funny characters.


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