[TriLUG] sendmail question (unrelated to YaST)

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 11:23, Brian Henning wrote:
> ...to Yet another Sendmail Trick...or in this case, question.
> 
> Should I have to restart sendmail for changes to /etc/aliases to take
> effect?  I didn't think it was necessary, but there's circumstantial
> evidence suggesting otherwise..

No, but you have to run the program called "newaliases" (it's in
/usr/bin on my system).

newaliases parses the aliases file into a binary format into the file
aliases.db. 

This applies to both sendmail and postfix by the way (on a postfix
system, there's also a more generic command called "postmap" used for
building other database files.)

Jeremy
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