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.TH NEWALIASES 1 "$Date: 2013-11-22 20:51:56 $"
.SH NAME
newaliases
\- rebuild the data base for the mail aliases file
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B newaliases
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B Newaliases
rebuilds the random access data base for the mail aliases file
/etc/aliases.  It must be run each time this file is changed
in order for the change to take effect.
.PP
.B Newaliases
is identical to ``sendmail -bi''.
.PP
The
.B newaliases
utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
.PP
Notice: do
.B not
use
.B makemap
to create the aliases data base, because
.B newaliases
puts a special token into the data base that is required by
.B sendmail.
.SH FILES
.TP 2i
/etc/aliases
The mail aliases file
.SH SEE ALSO
aliases(5), sendmail(8)
.SH HISTORY
The
.B newaliases
command appeared in 4.0BSD.