[lug] aliases

[Hugh Brown]

Something you might try is munging the line for abuse so that sendmail will
spit out an error so you can tell that it is processing the file.  Do
something like remove the colon and then run newaliases and verify that it
burps appropriately.  As a stopgap measure, you could try switching to the
include style alias, i.e.

abuse: :include: /etc/mail/lists/abuse

Hugh


"charles at lunarmedia.net"
> 
> > I don't suppose that you added craig and tony to an already existing
> > alias and then forgot to run the newaliases command?  Just a reminder that
> > you need to run the newaliases command for changes to the aliases file to
> > take affect.
> >
> 
> 	yes. i tried a few things to start troubleshooting. first, i
> 	removed the " " space between each user:
> 
> 	abuse:	charles,tony,craig
> 
> 	i've also, been using the init script to restart sendmail which
> 	i believe issues newaliases:
> 
>         echo -n "Starting sendmail: "
>         /usr/bin/newaliases > /dev/null 2>&1
> 
> 	i tried running 'newaliases' alone and still nothing.
> 	i am not sure if possibly the problem is involving the init script
> 	or not. i was just curious to hear if anyone had run into this
> 	exact problem.
> 
> 	thanks.
> 
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