topic Re: mail question in Operating System - HP-UX

mail question

Ron Irving — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:43:16 GMT

If I lose my /etc/mail/aliases, can I recreate by just reissuing the newaliases command?

thanks in advance

Re: mail question

Patrick Wallek — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:50:34 GMT

No. The aliases file is what the 'newaliases' command uses to created the aliases.db file.

If aliases is gone, you'll have to restore from backup.

Re: mail question

Ron Irving — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:53:51 GMT

the /etc/aliases file is there, just not /etc/mail/aliases.

Seriously? From backup??

Re: mail question

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:54:08 GMT

Hi Ron:

You can restore a virgin aliases file from:

/usr/newconfig/etc/mail/aliases

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: mail question

Ron Irving — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:58:50 GMT

Will I have to vi the /etc/mail/aliases file to match /etc/aliases, or will newaliases configure it for me?

Re: mail question

Patrick Wallek — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:05:53 GMT

On one of my systems /etc/aliases is a link to /etc/mail/aliases. So, if /etc/mail/aliases is gone, the /etc/aliases is useless.

If you cp a virgin aliases as JRF suggests, then yes you will have to edit it to get it back to its previous form.

The aliases file is only used by the newaliases command to generate aliases.db. If aliases doesn't exist, then there's no harm until you need to make a change.

There's no way I know of to have 'newaliases' work in reverse to generate aliases from aliases.db.

Why is restoring from backup a problem? That's why you have them.

Re: mail question

Ron Irving — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:10:11 GMT

Ok...got it from backup.

How do I re-link the /etc/aliases to /etc/mail/aliases.

That's the way it's setup on our other servers.

# ln -i /etc/aliases /etc/mail/aliases?

Re: mail question

Patrick Wallek — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:06:31 GMT

rm /etc/aliases
ln -s /etc/mail/aliases /etc/aliases

Re: mail question

Ron Irving — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:33:25 GMT

thank you all!! All better now!!