You just have to escape the ampersand character.
Try:
touch .qmail-lokesha\&khanna
I know that will create the file, but I don't know if qmail will handle
that.
charlie
-----Original Message-----
From: Ross Cooney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 10:42 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How to add alias
On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 05:03:33PM +0600, lokesh khanna wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am using qmail 1.03-30 on redhat 6.2 box and its working very very
> fine. I am facing a problem while adding a new alias. I want to create
> a alias by the name lokesh&khanna ( & sign ) but when i am running
> touch .qmail-lokesh&khanna its giving below message
>
> [1] 16495
> bash: khanna: command not found
>
> I think its not allowing me to add a user whose username is having & (
> and
> sign )
not sure if '&' is an odd character.....but '.' is.
Here is link to the FAQ whic described what to do with '.'s This might
be a good place to start investigating the '&'!!!
http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/incominguser.html#alias-dots
Ross
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