.\" Copyright 2003 Walter Harms (walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de)
+.\"
+.\" %%%LICENSE_START(GPL_NOVERSION_ONELINE)
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+.\" %%%LICENSE_END
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.SH DESCRIPTION
One of the databases available with the Name Service Switch (NSS)
is the aliases database, that contains mail aliases.
-(To find out which databases are supported, try \fIgetent \-\-help\fP.)
+(To find out which databases are supported, try
+.IR "getent \-\-help" .)
Six functions are provided to access the aliases database.
.PP
The
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.fi
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-.SH "RETURN VALUE"
+.SH RETURN VALUE
The functions
.BR getaliasent_r ()
and
This can be changed in the
.I /etc/nsswitch.conf
file.
-.SH "CONFORMING TO"
+.SH CONFORMING TO
These routines are glibc-specific.
-The NeXT has similar routines:
+The NeXT system has similar routines:
.in +4n
.nf
exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
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.fi
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.SH SEE ALSO
.BR getgrent (3),
.BR getpwent (3),
.BR getspent (3),
.\" /etc/sendmail/aliases
.\" Yellow Pages
.\" newaliases, postalias
+.SH COLOPHON
+This page is part of release 3.79 of the Linux
+.I man-pages
+project.
+A description of the project,
+information about reporting bugs,
+and the latest version of this page,
+can be found at
+\%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.