HP-UX Reference (11i v1 00/12) - 1M System Administration Commands N-Z (vol 4)

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newaliases(1M) newaliases(1M)
NAME
newaliases - rebuilds the database for the mail aliases file
SYNOPSIS
newaliases [-on]
DESCRIPTION
newaliases rebuilds the random access database 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.
Options
-on Validate addresses. When sendmail rebuilds the alias database files, it will check the legality of all
addresses to the right of the colons. Each address is validated. If the validation fails, the address is
skipped and a warning message is displayed.
RETURN VALUE
The newaliases utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
AUTHOR
newaliases was developed by the University of California, Berkeley, and originally appeared in 4.0BSD.
The manual page originally came from sendmail 8.7.
FILES
/etc/mail/aliases
The mail aliases file.
/etc/mail/aliases.db
Database of alias names.
SEE ALSO
aliases(5), sendmail(1M).
HP-UX Release 11i: December 2000 − 1 − Section 1M−−561
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