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Ron Irving
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mail question

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

thanks in advance
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Patrick Wallek
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Re: mail question

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

Seriously? From backup??
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James R. Ferguson
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Hi Ron:

You can restore a virgin aliases file from:

/usr/newconfig/etc/mail/aliases

Regards!

...JRF...
Ron Irving
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Will I have to vi the /etc/mail/aliases file to match /etc/aliases, or will newaliases configure it for me?
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Patrick Wallek
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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.
Ron Irving
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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?
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Patrick Wallek
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rm /etc/aliases
ln -s /etc/mail/aliases /etc/aliases
Ron Irving
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thank you all!! All better now!!
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