CONFLICT(8MH) COMMAND REFERENCE CONFLICT(8MH)
NAME
conflict - search for alias/password conflicts
SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/mh/conflict [-mail user name ]
DESCRIPTION
Conflict is a program which checks to see that
inconsistencies between the Rand MH alias file (
aliases(5MH) ) and the passwd(5) file have not been
introduced. In particular, a line in the alias file may be
"tom: jones" (because the user "jones" likes to be called
Tom), but if "tom" is also a valid user name for someone
else, then that user will no longer receive any mail; his
mail will be received by "jones" instead!
Conflict also checks for mailboxes in /usr/spool/mail which
do not belong to a valid user. It assumes that no user name
will start with `.', and thus ignores files in
/usr/spool/mail which begin with `.'. It also checks for
entries in the group(5) file which do not belong to a valid
user, and for users who do not belong to any group in the
group file. This last test is local to Rand, and will not
be performed unless the -DRAND flag was set at compile time.
If the -mail flag is set, then the results will be sent to
the specified user name. Otherwise, the results are sent to
the standard output.
Conflict should be run under Cron, or whenever system
accounting takes place.
FILES
/etc/MailAliases
/etc/passwd
/etc/group
/usr/spool/mail/*
SEE ALSO
group(5), passwd(5).
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