Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 14:40:01 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Nathan Vidican <nate@mail.govital.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/aliases wildcard-alias Message-ID: <20000625144001.C334@dialin-client.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <200006252017.QAA23499@mail.govital.net>; from nate@mail.govital.net on Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 04:17:28PM -0400 References: <200006252017.QAA23499@mail.govital.net>
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On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 04:17:28PM -0400, Nathan Vidican wrote:
> 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).
$ man 5 aliases
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BUGS
If you have compiled sendmail with DBM support instead of NEWDB, you may
have encountered problems in dbm(3) restricting a single alias to about
1000 bytes of information. You can get longer aliases by ``chaining'';
that is, make the last name in the alias be a dummy name which is a con-
tinuation alias.
> Is there not a simpler way of making an alias to <ALL> users on the system? Since our users add/remove/change all te time, somesort of wildcard would be really nice.
It could be possible to make the alias entry in /etc/aliases a pipe to
a program that assembles the list of current users in RT.
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Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu
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