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praliases

praliases(1)						      General Commands Manual						      praliases(1)

NAME

       praliases - print system-wide sendmail aliases

SYNOPSIS

       file] file] [key ...]

DESCRIPTION

       prints  out the contents of the alias data base used by to resolve system-wide mail aliases.  The alias data base is built with the command
       or See sendmail(1M).

       The options are:

	      Read the configuration file specified with this option instead of the default configuration file.

	      Accesses the alias database built from
		       file with the command

		       If this option is not used, accesses the database built from the default alias file

       Note that accesses the database, not the alias file itself.  If the alias file has changed since the alias database was last  built,  natu-
       rally the output of cannot match the contents of the alias file.

       Each key argument, if any, is looked up in the alias database.  prints out the aliases to which each key expands in the form:

       where mailing list can be a comma-separated list of addresses to which the key resolves.

   Note
       can be used by privileged users only.

RETURN VALUE

       The utility exits with 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

DIAGNOSTICS

       key    was not found in the alias database.

EXAMPLES

	      The output reveals that is aliased to is aliased to and that there is no alias for the key

WARNINGS

       Because	supports NIS aliases, some NIS key-words may appear in the output.  These key-words, which include and may be safely ignored; they
       merely indicate that is properly updating the alias database.

AUTHOR

       was developed by the University of California, Berkeley.

FILES

       default alias file
       default alias database

SEE ALSO

       sendmail(1M).

																      praliases(1)

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