On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 04:07:33PM -0700, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: > From: David Hláèik Sent: April 1, 2008 16:00 > > > > 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. Cheers Chris -- Chris Payne chris.payne at triumf.ca TRIUMF ATLAS Tier-1 System Administrator - Networking TRIUMF +1 604 222 7554 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T2A3, CANADA