NAME

CfgNamed -- a tool to help change your DNS settings

DESCRIPTION

This is a tool to help modify and keep your DNS server files up to date.

Command Line Parameters

The parameters are a broken down into three categories:

Adding, changing, removing, or retrieving entries

--add, --delete, --fetch, --join, --remove, --rename, --set

Adding, Changing, Removing, or Retrieving Entries.

The following specify how the change various entries. Typically the can not be intermized on the same command line. (Exceptions are noted).

--add ADDRESS

--add=ADDRESS

This will add the ADDRESS (user, group, etc.) to a mail group. The group must be specified with the --group option above.

--delete NAME

--delete=NAME

This will remove the mail alias(es) specified by NAME. It will also remove from any mail alias(es) (or groups) any member(s) that matches NAME. NAME may be a regular expression. (Can be used with --remove and --rename).

--fetch NAME

--fetch=NAME

This will retrieve the list of recipients in the mail group NAME. If NAME is a regular expression, information will retrieved for every group that matches the pattern.

--join

--join GROUP

--join=GROUP

--join GROUP1,GROUP2,...

--join=GROUP1,GROUP2,...

The current or effective user will be added to a mail group(s). If no groups are specified with this option, it must be specified using the --group option above. Multiple --joins may be used on a command line.

--remove NAME

--remove=NAME

Like delete above, this will remove the mail group(s) specified by NAME. NAME may be a regular expression. (Can be used with --delete and --rename)

--rename NAME-NEW=NAME-OLD

This will change all of the occurrences or references that match NAME-OLD to the newer form of NAME-NEW. This may be a group name, and / or members of a group. This may be a regular expression, similar to;

s/NAME-OLD/NAME-NEW/

--set NAME=MEMBERS

This will create a mail group called NAME with a set of specified members MEMBERS. (Can be used with --delete and --remove).

Files

/etc/aliases

See Also

CfgTie::CfgArgs for more information on the standard parameters aliases(5) named(8)

Notes

Author

Randall Maas (randym@acm.org)