From: Scott Taylor <scott@dctchambers.com>
To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Script to edit /etc/aliases file
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 08:10:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.0.20031022080250.0221b158@mustang> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0310221048300.3847-100000@acunix.wheatonma.e du>
At 07:55 AM 10/22/2003, David Tice wrote:
>We add new users through a script that sets up home directories on
>different machines. If they are a student they on one machine if they are
>faculty they are on different and so on. Our mail comes into one machine
>and then sent to where their home directory lives. ( I did not set it up
>this way but I have to deal with it) I need to set up aliases for everyone
> who is new and I am doing it by hand.
>Does anyone have a script that I can use?
just add the line to your current (bash/sh?) script.
echo -e "$NewUserName:\t$NewUserName@$NewUserMachine" >> /etc/aliases
Of course you probably have some other varables to represent $NewUserName
and $NewUserMachine. Then just run "newaliases"
next parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-22 15:10 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0310221048300.3847-100000@acunix.wheatonma.e du>
2003-10-22 15:10 ` Scott Taylor [this message]
2003-10-22 14:55 Script to edit /etc/aliases file David Tice
2003-10-22 15:08 ` Matthew Harrison
2003-10-23 6:26 ` Horia Chirculescu
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