NEWALIASES(8) BSD System Manager's Manual NEWALIASES(8)NAMEnewaliases - rebuild the data base for the mail aliases file
SYNOPSISnewaliasesDESCRIPTIONnewaliases 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".
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
/etc/mail/aliases The mail aliases file
EXIT STATUS
The newaliases utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSOaliases(5), mailer.conf(5), makemap(8), sendmail(8)HISTORY
The newaliases command appeared in 4.0BSD.
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