NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

     newaliases - rebuild the data base for the mail aliases file

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

     newaliases

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

     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(8) to  create  the  aliases  data
base, because
     newaliases  puts  a special token into the data base that is
required by
     sendmail(8).

FILES    [Toc]    [Back]

     /etc/mail/aliases  The mail aliases file

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

     aliases(5), mailer.conf(5), makemap(8), sendmail(8)

HISTORY    [Toc]    [Back]

     The newaliases command appeared in 4.0BSD.

OpenBSD     3.6                        October      10,      2001