NEWALIASES(8) Maintenance Commands and Procedures NEWALIASES(8)

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/mail/aliases.


newaliases accepts all the flags that sendmail(8) accepts. However, most
of these flags have no effect, except for the -C option and three of the
Processing Options that can be set from a configuration file with the -o
option:

-C /path/to/alt/config/file

Use alternate configuration file.


-oAfile

Specify possible alias files.


-oLn

Set the default log level to n. Defaults to 9.


-on

Validate the RHS of aliases when rebuilding the aliases(5) database.


newaliases runs in verbose mode (-v option) automatically.

EXAMPLES

Example 1: Running the newaliases Command

The following command runs newaliases on an alias file different from the
/etc/mail/aliases default in sendmail(8):


example% newaliases -oA/path/to/alternate/alias/file

EXIT STATUS

newaliases returns an exit status describing what it did. The codes are
defined in /usr/include/sysexits.h.

EX_OK
Successful completion on all addresses.


EX_NOUSER
User name not recognized.


EX_UNAVAILABLE
Catchall. Necessary resources were not available.


EX_SYNTAX
Syntax error in address.


EX_SOFTWARE
Internal software error, including bad arguments.


EX_OSERR
Temporary operating system error, such as "cannot
fork".


EX_NOHOST
Host name not recognized.


EX_TEMPFAIL
Message could not be sent immediately, but was queued.

FILES

/etc/aliases
Symbolic link to /etc/mail/aliases


/etc/mail/aliases.pag


/etc/mail/aliases.dir
ndbm files maintained by newaliases


/etc/mail/aliases.db
Berkeley DataBase file maintained by newaliases

SEE ALSO

aliases(5), attributes(7), sendmail(8)

September 14, 2001 NEWALIASES(8)