On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Brian K. West wrote:
> if you symlink newaliases to the exim binary it will rebuild the alias DB
Not true, I'm afraid.
Exim has no concept of "the alias DB". You can configure any number of
alias files. They don't have to be files that are rebuilt - they can be
linearly searched (sensible if they are short).
If you do symlink newaliases to exim, it behaves as "exim -bi". What that
does depends on the setting of bi_command, which by default is unset.
When it is unset, running "exim -bi" is a no-op.
Therefore, just doing the symlinking achieves nothing, but you can, if
you want to, set up bi_command to run some script which does stuff like
rebuilding aliases if you need that functionality.
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