or just restart sendmail is enought?

thanks!

D.

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 11:57 PM, Hugh E Cruickshank hugh@forsoft.com wrote:

From: David Hláèik Sent: April 1, 2008 14:40

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Hi, how to sent mail to more then one email adress

here comes the part from /etc/aliases

# Person who should get root's mail root: david.hlacik@polarion.com, lubomir.brychta@polarion.com

which is not working.

Your half way there. After editing the /etc/aliases file you must then run the "newaliases" command to populate the databases.

HTH

Regards, Hugh

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From: Frank Cox Sent: April 1, 2008 16:03

On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:00:15 David Hláčik david@hlacik.eu wrote:

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or just restart sendmail is enought?

No.

I run this short bash script every time I make a change in my sendmail configuration:

#!/bin/bash cd /etc/mail make newaliases /etc/init.d/sendmail restart

While that will work it is really overkill. All you need to do is edit the /etc/aliases file and issue the newaliases command. sendmail will use the updated databases immediately.

Regards, Hugh

Frank Cox wrote:

On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:00:15 +0200 David Hláčik david@hlacik.eu wrote:

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or just restart sendmail is enought?

No.

I run this short bash script every time I make a change in my sendmail configuration:

#!/bin/bash cd /etc/mail make newaliases /etc/init.d/sendmail restart

And the init script will repeat the newaliases and make... I'm not sure what version added them, though.

On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 04:07:33PM -0700, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote:

From: David Hláèik Sent: April 1, 2008 16:00

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or just restart sendmail is enought?

I do not believe that that will work. The databases are normally only updated on demand when you issue the newaliases command. restarting sendmail will just use the exiting database without the changes you did to the /etc/aliases file.

If you use the init scripts, the newaliases command is run as part of the "start" or "reload" functions:

grep newaliases /etc/init.d/sendmail

/usr/bin/newaliases > /dev/null 2>&1 /usr/bin/newaliases > /dev/null 2>&1

A "make" in /etc/mail is also included.

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