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NEWALIASES

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
FILES
SEE ALSO
HISTORY

NAME

newaliases ? rebuild the data base for the mail aliases file

SYNOPSIS

newaliases

DESCRIPTION

Newaliases rebuilds the random access data base for the mail aliases file /etc/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.

FILES

/etc/aliases

The mail aliases file

SEE ALSO

aliases(5), sendmail(8)

HISTORY

The newaliases command appeared in 4.0BSD.


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