Real simple answer, switch to Postfix and dump sendmail. Then edit your alias file to add the aliases, run newaliases and you're done... john . Scott Silva wrote: > on 4-2-2008 4:41 AM Brent L. Bates spake the following: >> Sendmail used to automatically compare creation dates of the >> text and >> database aliases files and when the text one was newer than the >> database one, >> sendmail would automatically update the database file at a convenient >> time. >> This made a lot of sense. However, the powers that be decided to >> break this >> great feature and removed it. I copied it back into to source we use. >> > Many newer distros add that functionality to the init scripts. I seem > to recall that option had some bad side effects, and that is why > sendmail removed it. I wish I could remember what the problem was. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.4/1355 - Release Date: 01/04/2008 5:37 PM > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080402/25ccc2a4/attachment-0004.html>