From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Nov 6 5:25:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E57D37B401 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 05:25:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (krusty.dt.E-Technik.Uni-Dortmund.DE [129.217.163.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E32843E4A for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 05:25:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de) Received: from m2a2.yi.org (krusty.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.163.1]) by mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEC97A3831 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 14:25:48 +0100 (CET) Received: by merlin.emma.line.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 365E758662; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 14:25:46 +0100 (CET) To: Vivek Khera Cc: "Dan Langille" , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail/postfix expects /etc/aliases.db References: <3DC7C8FE.31156.6C65D5A5@localhost> <15816.5541.373572.494590@onceler.kciLink.com> In-Reply-To: <15816.5541.373572.494590@onceler.kciLink.com> (Vivek Khera's message of "Tue, 5 Nov 2002 14:01:57 -0500") From: Matthias Andree Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 14:25:46 +0100 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Vivek Khera writes: > I'll go with this option. I think the right thing to do is to tell > the user to copy/move /etc/aliases to /usr/local/etc/postfix/aliases. > > Thanks for the note. My canonical procedure is a plain ln -s /usr/local/etc/postfix /etc -- that way, I don't need to worry about examples or paths or whatever. It won't fix the immediate problem though, because it'd still need to be /etc/postfix/aliases rather than /usr/local/etc/postfix/aliases (and you better set the symlink immutable as in-depth robustness ;-) -- Matthias Andree To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message