[TriLUG] sendmail question (unrelated to YaST)

[Brian Henning]

Well if it makes you feel better, Aaron, I like your response more, as it
already addresses my follow-up question of "why, then, does restarting
sendmail work?" :-)  But thanks to both of you.

~B

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aaron S. Joyner" <aaron at joyner.ws>
To: "Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list" <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 11:41 AM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] sendmail question (unrelated to YaST)


> Jeremy Portzer wrote:
>
> >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
> >
> >
> Boo, Jeremy types too fast.  :)
>
> Aaron S. Joyner
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