[rancid] Re: Aliases and wildcards

[Chris Gauthier]

To the best of my knowledge, you’re mixing apples and oranges there.  Rancid does not actually control /etc/aliases at all.  The ‘aliases’ file is used by your MTA (sendmail, postfix, et al) to provide specific direction for various email addresses on the system.  All rancid does is append the rancid group name to either the ‘rancid-‘ or ‘rancid-admin-‘ string and use standard mailing calls to whatever MTA is running.  The MTA is what governs the format of the /etc/aliases file.

 

Chris Gauthier

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From: rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net [mailto:rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net] On Behalf Of Konstantin Yudayev
Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 8:35 AM
To: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
Subject: [rancid] Re: Aliases and wildcards

 

Isabelle,

I don't think it is possible to use wildcards in /etc/aliases since the username is being looked up by getpwname system function. But it can be done through patching bin/control_rancid.

On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 08:49 -0300, isabelle at ctbc.com.br wrote: 

Hello! 

	  

	I would just like to know if its possible to use wildcards in the "aliases" file or if I can set an e-mail that will receive mail from all groups. What I intended to do was something like this: 

	  

	# rancid/etc/aliases 

	  

	rancid-admin-*        mail at mail.com 

	rancid-*                 mail at mail.com

	Any help would be appreciated. 

	  

	Thank you very much for your time. 

	  

	Best regards, 

	  

	Isabelle.
	
	
	

	 
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