newaliases - rebuild the data base for the mail aliases file
newaliases
System Administration Commands 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) data- base. 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 ATTRIBUTES See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+------------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+------------------------------+ |Availability |service/network/smtp/sendmail | +-----------------------------+------------------------------+ SEE ALSO aliases(5), attributes(7), sendmail(8) Solaris 11.4 8 Mar 2016 newaliases(8)