praliases

- display system mail aliases

Synopsis

praliases [-C configfile] [-f aliasfile] [key]

Description

The praliases utility displays system mail aliases. When no key is given, praliases displays the current system aliases, one per line, in no particular order. The form is key:value. If a key is given, only that key is looked up and the appropriate key:value is displayed if found.

Options

The following options are supported:

-C configfile

Specifies a sendmail configuration file.

-f aliasfile

Reads the specified file aliasfile instead of the default sendmail system aliases file.

Operands

The following operands are supported:

key

A specific alias key to look up.

Exit Status

The following exit values are returned:

0

Successful operation.

>0

An error occurred.

Files

/etc/mail/aliases

Default sendmail system aliases file

/etc/mail/aliases.db

Database versions of the /etc/mail/aliases file

/etc/mail/aliases.dir

/etc/mail/aliases.pag

Database versions of the /etc/mail/aliases file

/etc/mail/sendmail.cf

Default sendmail configuration file

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

See Also

mailq(1), newaliases(1M), sendmail(1M), attributes(5)