Re: Bought Book

Roger B.A. Klorese wrote:

> Kevin Reiter wrote:
>
>> It was set to hash:/usr/local/etc/postfix/aliases, but the file wasn't
>> created, which is why I kept running it (after making changes to
>> /etc/aliases) - I didn't know what I was doing wrong...
>
>
> hash:/usr/local/etc/postfix/aliases doesn't mean to turn the text file
> /etc/aliases into /usr/local/etc/postfix/aliases. It means to turn the
> text file /usr/local/etc/postfix/aliases into the hash file
> /usr/local/etc/postfix/aliases.db.
>
> If you want your source is /etc/aliases set has:/etc/aliases and your
> hashed file will end up in /etc/aliases.db.

Gibberish.

I meant, of course...

If your source is /etc/aliases set alias_databases and alias_maps to
hash:/etc/aliases and your hashed file will end up in /etc/aliases.db.