From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 25 13:13:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.govital.net (mail.govital.net [216.94.149.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0D2937B522 for ; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 13:13:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mail.govital.net) Received: (from nate@localhost) by mail.govital.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA23499 for questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 16:17:28 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from nate) Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 16:17:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Nathan Vidican Message-Id: <200006252017.QAA23499@mail.govital.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: /etc/aliases wildcard-alias Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I need to create an alias for all users of the system, I tried making a simple script that reads every user rom /etc/master.passwd, and adds them to an alias in the form of user,user,user (etc). When I run 'newliases', I get an error on that paticular alias stating that it's too large (2774 users). Is there not a simpler way of making an alias to users on the system? Since our users add/remove/change all te time, somesort of wildcard would be really nice. Nathan Vidican Vital Internet Inc. nate@govital.net http://www.govital.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message