From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 25 14:41:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (c1870039.telekabel.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7A3737BA90 for ; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 14:41:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Received: from nisser.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id XAA52875; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 23:41:08 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Message-ID: <39567CCE.FE050168@nisser.com> Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 23:42:38 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eboa - engineering buro Office Automation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nathan Vidican Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/aliases wildcard-alias References: <200006252017.QAA23499@mail.govital.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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). > 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. Maybe I'm missing something. But does not every user get a mailbox of the form @? So what alias? Is it is some special name then how can you expect a script to know it? If it's about some virtual domain, than try @ %1@ or something likewise. Roelof -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Eboa (ingenieursburo Office Automation) web. http://eboa.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message