From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Aug 28 13:11:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B261B37B400 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 13:11:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA80D43E75 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 13:11:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a053.otenet.gr [212.205.215.53]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g7SKBM6e014221; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 23:11:24 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7SKBKNK029291; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 23:11:20 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g7SKBE5r029269; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 23:11:14 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 23:11:12 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Adam Davenport Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Handbook error? Message-ID: <20020828201111.GF8848@hades.hell.gr> References: <3D6D2CCC.BC65A2D6@cluephone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D6D2CCC.BC65A2D6@cluephone.net> X-PGP-Fingerprint: C1EB 0653 DB8B A557 3829 00F9 D60F 941A 3186 03B6 X-Phone: +30-944-116520 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 2002-08-28 16:04 +0000, Adam Davenport wrote: > Howdy, > > In Section: 19.3.2 /etc/mail/aliases in the FreeBSD Handbook > (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sendmail.html) > says "When this file is updated, you need to run make in /etc/mail/ to > update the database." I think it should say run newaliases, not make. > Running make isn't going to change anything with the aliases... Just an > observation. Try it out :) root@hades[23:10]/etc/mail# touch aliases root@hades[23:10]/etc/mail# make /usr/sbin/sendmail -bi /etc/mail/aliases: 40 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 428 bytes total chmod 0640 /etc/mail/aliases.db -- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve -- http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message