[TriLUG] sendmail question (unrelated to YaST)

[Jeff Groves]

Jeremy Portzer wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 11:23, Brian Henning wrote:
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>>...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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Ack! That's right... now make... newaliases...  sorry about that.

Ignore my previous posting.

Jeff G.