--- sendmail-8.12.9/sendmail/aliases.5.orig Mon Jul 12 07:39:21 2004 +++ sendmail-8.12.9/sendmail/aliases.5 Sun Jan 12 06:28:03 2014 @@ -95,20 +95,18 @@ list of users defined in that file. .PP This is only the raw data file; the actual aliasing information is -placed into a binary format in the file -/etc/mail/aliases.db -using the program -newaliases(1). -A -newaliases +placed into a binary format per default in the file +\fB/etc/mail/aliases.db\fR or \fB/etc/mail/aliases.dir\fR and +\fB/etc/mail/aliases.pag\fR using the program \fBnewaliases\fR(8) depending +on the kind of database being used. +A newaliases command should be executed each time the aliases file is changed for the change to take effect. + .SH SEE ALSO -newaliases(1), -dbm(3), -dbopen(3), -db_open(3), -sendmail(8) +\fBnewaliases\fR(8), +\fBndbm\fR(3C), +\fBsendmail\fR(8) .PP .I SENDMAIL Installation and Operation Guide. @@ -115,16 +113,16 @@ .PP .I SENDMAIL An Internetwork Mail Router. -.SH BUGS -If you have compiled -sendmail -with DBM support instead of NEWDB, -you may have encountered problems in -dbm(3) -restricting a single alias to about 1000 bytes of information. + +.SH NOTES +.LP +If DBM instead of NEWDB is used, you may encounter problems in +ndbm(3C) restricting a single alias to about 1000 bytes of information. You can get longer aliases by ``chaining''; that is, make the last name in the alias be a dummy name which is a continuation alias. + .SH HISTORY +.LP The .B aliases file format appeared in