8. System administration commands (usually only for root)
NEWALIASES
Section: Maintenance Commands (8)Updated: $Date: 2013-11-22 20:51:56 $
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NAME
newaliases - rebuild the data base for the mail aliases fileSYNOPSIS
newaliasesDESCRIPTION
Newaliases rebuilds the random access data base for the mail aliases file /etc/mail/aliases. It must be run each time this file is changed in order for the change to take effect.Newaliases is identical to ``sendmail -bi''.
The newaliases utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
Notice: do not use makemap to create the aliases data base, because newaliases puts a special token into the data base that is required by sendmail.
FILES
- /etc/mail/aliases
- The mail aliases file
SEE ALSO
aliases(5), sendmail(8)HISTORY
The newaliases command appeared in 4.0BSD.
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