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Date:      Wed, 28 Aug 2002 23:11:12 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Adam Davenport <dis@cluephone.net>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Handbook error?
Message-ID:  <20020828201111.GF8848@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <3D6D2CCC.BC65A2D6@cluephone.net>
References:  <3D6D2CCC.BC65A2D6@cluephone.net>

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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
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