Gurus:

I am on solaris 8, sunblade1000.

/etc/mail/aliases contain
rt: pedro, reng, xao

Changed it to
rt: pedro, dan, xao

then, I ran /usr/lib/sendmail -bi. Then I ran /usr/lib/sendmail -bv
rt, which reflects pedro, dan, xao.

After 10 mins, I ran /usr/bin/sendmail -bv rt, which shows pedro,
reng, xao. And I checked /etc/mail/aliases, which also shows the old
entry for rt.

Is there something i am missing?

Thanks

quoting heylow (Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:24:46 -0000):
> After 10 mins, I ran /usr/bin/sendmail -bv rt, which shows pedro,
> reng, xao. And I checked /etc/mail/aliases, which also shows the old
> entry for rt.
>
> Is there something i am missing?

After a 'newaliases' sendmail should be aware of your changes.
I *never* heard of sendmail writing to its aliases file.
If this file is back to its original than that's very strange.

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On Sep 24, 5:37 pm, Dick Hoogendijk <d... [at] nagual.nl> wrote:
> quoting heylow (Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:24:46 -0000):
>
> > After 10 mins, I ran /usr/bin/sendmail -bv rt, which shows pedro,
> > reng, xao. And I checked /etc/mail/aliases, which also shows the old
> > entry for rt.
>
> > Is there something i am missing?
>
> After a 'newaliases' sendmail should be aware of your changes.
> I *never* heard of sendmail writing to its aliases file.
> If this file is back to its original than that's very strange.

I have figured out; there is some cronjob which is overwriting this
file. Thanks, anyways.