Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 16:09:36 +0100 (CET) From: Trond Endrestol <trond@dontpanic.gtf.ol.no> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Is @ allowed within /etc/adduser.message? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911041607490.6877-100000@dontpanic.gtf.ol.no> In-Reply-To: <31766.941724492@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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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
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