On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:33:16PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote: > What you can do (as root or with sudo) is edit the file /etc/aliases and add > an entry 'root: username', after which you issue the command 'newaliases.'
This is a sendmailism. exim will recognize changes to alias files immediately and does not require the use of newaliases. Doesn't hurt, but it doesn't do any good either. $ cat `which newaliases` #!/bin/sh /usr/lib/sendmail -bi $ ls -l /usr/lib/sendmail lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Nov 11 11:02 /usr/lib/sendmail -> ../sbin/exim $ man exim ... -bi Sendmail interprets the -bi option as a request to rebuild its alias file. Exim does not have the con cept of a single alias file, and so it cannot mimic this behaviour. However, calls to /usr/lib/sendmail -bi tend to appear in various scripts such as NIS make files, so the option must be recognized. If -bi is encountered, the command specified by the bi_command configuration option is run, under the uid and gid of the caller of Exim. If the -oA option is used, its value is passed to the command as an argument. The command set by bi_command may not contain arguments. The command can use the exim_dbmbuild utility, or some other means, to rebuild alias files if this is required. If the bi_command option is not set, then calling Exim with -bi is a no-op. ... $ exim -bP | grep bi_command bi_command = -- The freedoms that we enjoy presently are the most important victories of the White Hats over the past several millennia, and it is vitally important that we don't give them up now, only because we are frightened. - Eolake Stobblehouse (http://stobblehouse.com/text/battle.html) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]