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From: childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: mail to /dev/null
Message-ID: <464@avsd.UUCP>
Date: 7 Feb 89 18:33:19 GMT
References: <3244@xyzzy.UUCP>
Reply-To: childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers)
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clegg@dg-rtp.dg.com (Alan Clegg) writes:

>I am having trouble with an alias on our system... one user is aliased to
>/dev/null...  I suppose this should send his mail into the twilight zone, 
>but I can't get my sendmail.cf to understand that.

What kind of system ? And what happens when you try ?

>Even a better question... Is it legal to alias somebody to /dev/null?

It is with the machines I work with, VAXen running 4.3, and Suns. I think
it's set up like this, though :

		nobody:		/dev/null
			.
			.
			.
		somebody:	nobody

Of course, make sure the file exists, and the permissions are correct, and
that the filesystem is mounted read-write, and a few other things.

>        Alan Clegg                              //-n-\\
>                                        _____---=======---_____
>     clegg@dg-rtp.dg.com            ====____\   /.. ..\   /____====
>  ...!mcnc!rti!xyzzy!clegg        //         ---\__O__/---         \\

-- richard



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