NEWALIASES(8)

📦 version 2.64, in epel 9, fedora 43, fedora 44

✨ newaliases — the manual page bestie 💖

okay so this is newaliases(8) from the System Manager's Manual, and she's a tiny lil page but she's IMPORTANT, so let's get into it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

newaliases — update the /etc/aliases database

like literally that's her whole job description. short. sweet. iconic. 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

newaliases

no flags. no arguments. no options. she takes nothing. she just goes. 👑

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so plot twist bestie: this is actually just a link to the ssmtp binary. 😭 that's it. that's the whole thing.

when you run it, it invokes /usr/sbin/sendmail with the -bi option. the reason she exists at all is compatibility with the sendmail program — so that all your scripts and your muscle memory that expect newaliases to be a thing don't just fall over. 🫶

but here's the tea on Fedora specifically: sSMTP supports /etc/aliases as a plain text file, so there is no need to regenerate a database. the thing you're "updating" doesn't need updating. the database is a vibe, not a file. ✨

💜 AUTHOR 💜

this manual page was written by Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system. 💖

minor fixes by Matt Ryan <mryan@debian.org> and Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy@fedoraproject.org>. 🎀

and that's the whole page, bestie, we're done!! 🎉

this came to you from Fedora, dated July 2012, and yeah she's an oldie but she's still serving 💅✨ no cap, that's the footer, mwah 🫶💖

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