From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 4 7:10:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dontpanic.gtf.ol.no (dontpanic.gtf.ol.no [128.39.174.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 376BF14C05 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 07:10:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from trond@dontpanic.gtf.ol.no) Received: from localhost (trond@localhost) by dontpanic.gtf.ol.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA06894; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 16:09:36 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from trond@dontpanic.gtf.ol.no) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 16:09:36 +0100 (CET) From: Trond Endrestol To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: Is @ allowed within /etc/adduser.message? In-Reply-To: <31766.941724492@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > 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 (``\''). It worked! Thank you, Sheldon!! Perhaps this should be mentioned in the manpage? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Trond Endrestøl | trond@dontpanic.gtf.ol.no Merkantilvegen 59HB7, | tronde@ramstind.gtf.ol.no N-2815 GJØVIK, NORWAY |+47 61139424 || +47 63874242 Patron of The Art of Computer Programming| FreeBSD 3.3 & Pine 4.10 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message