HP-UX Reference (11i v1 00/12) - 1 User Commands N-Z (vol 2)

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
STANDARD Printed by: Nora Chuang [nchuang] STANDARD
/build/1111/BRICK/man1/neqn.1
________________________________________________________________
___ ___
p
praliases(1) praliases(1)
NAME
praliases - print system-wide sendmail aliases
SYNOPSIS
praliases [-f file ][key ...]
DESCRIPTION
praliases prints out the contents of the alias data base used by sendmail to resolve system-wide mail
aliases. The alias data base is built with the command newaliases or /usr/sbin/sendmail -bi.
See sendmail(1M).
If the -f option is specified, praliases accesses the alias databasebuilt from file with the command
newaliases -oA file
Otherwise, praliases accesses the database built from the default alias file, /etc/mail/aliases.
Note that praliases accesses the database, not the alias file itself. If the alias file has changed since the
alias database was last built, naturally the output of praliases cannot match the contents of the alias
file.
Each key argument, if any, is looked up in the alias database.
praliases prints out the aliases to which
each key expands in the form:
key
: mailing list
where mailing list can be a comma-separated list of addresses to which the key resolves.
DIAGNOSTICS
key: No such key
key was not found in the alias database.
EXAMPLES
$ praliases root postmaster no_user
root: jan_user
postmaster: joe_user
no_user: No such key
The output reveals that root is aliased to jan_user, postmaster is aliased to joe_user, and
that there is no alias for the key
no_user.
WARNINGS
Because sendmail supports NIS aliases, some NIS key-words may appear in the praliases output. These
key-words, which include YP_LAST_MODIFIED and YP_MASTER_NAME, may be safely ignored; they
merely indicate that sendmail is properly updating the alias database.
AUTHOR
praliases was developed by the University of California, Berkeley.
FILES
/etc/mail/aliases
default aliasfile
/etc/mail/aliases.db
default aliasdatabase
SEE ALSO
sendmail(1M).
Section 1−−736 − 1 − HP-UX Release 11i: December 2000
___
___