RE: [Exim] Segfault when running newaliases

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Author: Eric Bullen
Date:  
To: Philip Hazel
CC: exim-users
Subject: RE: [Exim] Segfault when running newaliases
] On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Eric Bullen wrote:
]
] > I am currently running Exim 3.03 with a fairly modified .conf
] file. When I
] > run 'newaliases', it sits there for sometime, then segfaults.
] If I use the
] > default .conf file that comes with the rpm for exim,
] everything is happy.
]
] What program does "newaliases" actually run on your machine? It is a
] sendmail-ism which Exim doesn't support directly. Sometime it is set up
] to run Exim's exim_dbmbuild utility, but this depends on your
] system. If
] Exim itself is called under the name "newaliases", it is equivalent to
]
] exim -bi
]


I probably shouldn't have put it in quotes, but the file is included with
the rpm distro for Exim 3.03. The file's location is:

/usr/bin/newaliases

Here's a snippit from the .conf file. Is this correct?

>>>

# if you want to use DBM-Lookups.

bi_command=/usr/bin/newaliases
<<<

Thanks for the help.

-Eric