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Old 07-16-2007
/etc/mail/aliases
HI

I have 5000 users on sendmail server, also there entries of these users Mail ID in /etc/mail/aliases as per Diparments. Same Mail ID can occures in Diff Departments as per req.
I have to remove 500 users from server also there entry from /etc/mail/aliases file. which occures many times.

IS there any script to remove the ID's from this file at a time

Thanks
Kumarsharad
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Old 07-16-2007
If you have a file with the users listed in it one per line this might work for you:

Code:
cp /etc/mail/aliases /etc/mail/aliases.orig
fgrep -vwf file /etc/mail/aliases.orig > /etc/mail/aliases

I suggest you verify the file before doing:
Code:
newaliases

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