From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 25 10:05:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA25680 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 10:05:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uz.ComCAT.COM (uz.ComCAT.COM [204.170.64.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA25675 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 10:05:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jerryr@ComCAT.COM) Received: from uw.comcat.com (uw [204.170.64.249]) by uz.ComCAT.COM (8.8.8/8.8.8/sol2/mh/19980701) with ESMTP; id NAA02420; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 13:04:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost by uw.comcat.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/sol2/clnt/19981012) with SMTP id NAA24269 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 13:04:32 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: uw.comcat.com: jerryr owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 13:04:31 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry X-Sender: jerryr@uw To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Aliases In-Reply-To: <199811251754.JAA14351@pau-amma.whistle.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, David Wolfskill wrote: > >Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 10:57:23 -0600 > >From: Matt Gililland > > >How do I create an alias for a user that the username has more than 8 > >characters? > >Example: mgililla=mgililland > > I don't see the problem. For example: > > # Basic system aliases -- these MUST be present > MAILER-DAEMON: postmaster > > > Of course, that's followed by: > > postmaster: root after you add your entry to the /etc/aliases be sure to run: # newaliases To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message