Summary: postfix and newaliases

Dear managers,

thanks for the many responses. The solution is to use one of the 
following:

	sendmail -bi
	postalias /etc/mail/aliases

or put the /usr/bin/newaliases into a script and call this from the 
C-Programm.

Regards,

   Andreas


> we are using postfix on Solaris. Normally we edit /etc/mail/aliases 
> and run newaliases on the command line to modify the aliases database. 
> However, we would like to modify the file /etc/mail/aliases 
> programamaticaly now and then run newaliases from a C-program. This 
> works already for "postmap dbm:/etc/postfix/vmailbox" and so on, but 
> noit for newaliases.
>
> bash-2.03# ls -l /usr/bin/newaliases
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          15 Jun 26  2003 
> /usr/bin/newaliases -> ../lib/sendmail
>
> I just found out that newaliases actually is a link to 
> /usr/lib/sendmail. If I run this directly
>
>  /usr/lib/sendmail
>
> I get a sendmail waiting for user input. That's the reason why it does 
> not work if started by the program. What is needed to tell sendmail to 
> update the aliases database instead of waiting for mail? Is there a 
> better wait to triffer the update?
>
> Thanks,
>
>   Andreas
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