newaliases(1m)

1newaliases(1M)          System Administration Commands          newaliases(1M)
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NAME

6       newaliases - rebuild the data base for the mail aliases file
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SYNOPSIS

9       newaliases
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DESCRIPTION

13       newaliases  rebuilds  the  random access data base for the mail aliases
14       file /etc/mail/aliases.
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17       newaliases accepts all the flags that  sendmail(1M)  accepts.  However,
18       most  of these flags have no effect, except for the -C option and three
19       of the Processing Options that can be set  from  a  configuration  file
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22       -C /path/to/alt/config/file
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24           Use alternate configuration file.
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34           Set the default log level to n. Defaults to 9.
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39           Validate  the  RHS  of aliases when rebuilding the aliases(4) data‐
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44       newaliases runs in verbose mode (-v option) automatically.
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EXAMPLES

47       Example 1 Running the newaliases Command
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50       The following command runs newaliases on an alias file  different  from
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54          example% newaliases -oA/path/to/alternate/alias/file
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EXIT STATUS

59       newaliases returns an exit status describing what it did. The codes are
60       defined in /usr/include/sysexits.h.
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62       EX_OK             Successful completion on all addresses.
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FILES

89       /etc/aliases             Symbolic link to /etc/mail/aliases
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95       /etc/mail/aliases.dir    ndbm files maintained by newaliases
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98       /etc/mail/aliases.db     Berkeley   DataBase   file    maintained    by
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ATTRIBUTES

103       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
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108       ┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
109       │      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         │      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        │
110       ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
111       │Availability                 │SUNWsndmu                    │
112       └─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
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