Re: /etc/aliases

[Adam Galant <agalant@telestar.com.pl>]

On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Tom Allison wrote:

> I have a file: /etc/aliases that has me a bit confused as to it's 
> care and maintenance.
> 
> The head of the file says it was generated by exim, which I 
> thought I purged and replaced with postfix.  I made some changes 
> to the file...
> 
> I am not getting errors that the aliases file is newer than the 
> aliases.db  How do I manage these files?  I'm familiar with the 
> postmap $file method of creating a hash file.  But this isn't a 
> hash file...
> 
> Can someone point me towards some kind of fix to this problem?
> A man page to recommend?
> 

Hi.

'newaliases' will build hash file for aliases (if /etc/aliases is
correctly pointed by alias_maps in main.cf).

Regards,

Adam