Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 23:28:28 +0200 From: Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm@physik.fu-berlin.de> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail in -stable and aliases Message-ID: <19980422232828.A757@physik.fu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980422141251.17722A-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>; from Tom on Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 02:15:27PM -0700 References: <19980422230340.A415@physik.fu-berlin.de> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980422141251.17722A-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
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On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 02:15:27PM -0700, Tom wrote: > On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Axel Thimm wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 01:38:06PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > > Did you try restarting sendmail? > > > > No, I hadn't, and this was the cause of the grief. After a HUP sendmail behavied > > well again. > [...] > > About the `restarting sendmail' trap: I had looked through the man pages and found > > nothing suggesting a restart. Should this be mentioned in newaliases at least? > > A HUP should not be required for newaliases. > > I'm thinking that you did not rebuild the secondary alias file properly, > so sendmail did not notice the changes. What else other than using `newaliases' should I have done (and I tried it a lot of times before posting)? A secondary aliases.db was created and was only taken into account for local mail delivery. The HUP activated also the alias expansion for incoming mails send from other hosts. This is repeatable with -stable sources from 3-Apr 98 (/etc properly updated, also). Axel. -- Axel Thimm Axel.Thimm@physik.fu-berlin.de Axel.Thimm@ifh.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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