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newaliases -- Command Build the smail aliases data base from an ASCII source file /usr/lib/mail/newaliases Command newaliases reads the ASCII source file for an aliases data base, and builds the aliases data base according to the configuration information in /usr/lib/mail/config. Run this program whenever changes have been made to the ASCII source file. If this program is not used, smail may not notice the changes that have been made. The aliases data base can be in a DBM data base, a sorted text file, or a plain text file. (For information about what a DBM data base is, see the Lexicon entry for libgdbm.) In the latter case, which is the default under COHERENT, the ASCII source file doubles as the data-base file. To process an file, first use the command mkline to remove comments and regularize it. If you wish to build a sorted data base, then use the command mksort with its command-line option -f to create the sorted data base. If you wish, however, to build a DBM data base, use command mkdbm, again with option -f, to create the data base. In either case, be careful that smail never uses a truncated or partially built data base. For plain text data bases, newaliases displays a summary of its contents, but no changes are actually made. Files /usr/lib/mail/aliases The text file that defines aliases. /usr/lib/mail/aliases.dir /usr/lib/mail/aliases.pag The DBM data base that is built from the text file aliases. /usr/lib/mail/config The file that gives the default configuration for smail. See Also commands, libgdbm, mail [overview], mkdbm, mkline, mksort, smail Notes The name newaliases is retained for compatibility with BSD sendmail. Under smail release 3.1, this command usually is named mkaliases. Copyright © 1987, 1988 Ronald S. Karr and Landon Curt Noll. Copyright © 1992 Ronald S. Karr. For details on the distribution rights and restrictions associated with this software, see file COPYING, which is included with the source code to the smail system; or type the command: smail -bc.