Subject: Help! Memory effect of /usr/lib/aliases

From: [email-masked] (Kit-pui Wong)
Date: 14 Jul 1997 08:40:50 GMT

Hello, 

We have a HP 9000 712/60 running HPUX 9.05, being used
as our SMTP server. Recently I found that there is a
"serious" error - the /usr/lib/aliases developed a 
"memory effect". 

When an old alias is removed, newalias is executed, this 
pariticular alias is still retained somewhere in the system ! 
Since we are running NIS, I have also run ypmake in order
ensure no old "memory" is being kept. However, it failed !

i.e. once the following line is created in /usr/lib/aliases,
it is kept forever!!
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fool: [email-masked]

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It became a great problem for us. Any expert here please
advise me how to completely flush away stray memory of 
this kind.

Please drop me an email of your hint.
    [email-masked]

Many thanks in advance!
KiT