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praliases(1) praliases(1)
NAME
praliases - print system-wide sendmail aliases
SYNOPSIS
praliases [-C file ][-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).
The options are:
-C file Read the sendmail configuration file specified with this option instead of the default
configuration file.
-f Accesses the alias database built from file with the command
newaliases -oA file
If this option is not used, 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.
Note
praliases can be used by privileged users only.
RETURN VALUE
The praliases utility exits with 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
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 alias file
/etc/mail/aliases.db default alias database
SEE ALSO
sendmail(1M).
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