Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 00:18:26 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@mahoroba.org>, joe@pavilion.net, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc Makefile aliases src/etc/periodic/daily 210.backup-aliases src/share/man/man5 periodic.conf.5 src/share/man/man8 adding_user.8 src/usr.bin/mail mail.1 src/usr.bin/msgs msgs.1 src/usr.sbin/adduser adduser.8 ... Message-ID: <200008140718.AAA07860@netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: <14743.34963.992897.355009@horsey.gshapiro.net>
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Gregory Neil Shapiro wrote: > peter> Personally, I feel that /etc/aliases belongs to the OS, not > peter> sendmail. All of the other mailers (except qmail I think) expect > peter> /etc/aliases to be in the usual format and the usual place. That is > peter> why I never moved it on FreeBSD and why I still am uncomfortable > peter> about sendmail "taking it over" in the sendmail-private /etc/mail > peter> directory. It is no big deal though as far as I am concerned. > > If general consensus is to use /etc/aliases, I could set it in > etc/sendmail/freebsd.mc. Other configurations built using m4 and the files > that come with sendmail will continue to use /etc/mail/aliases. I probably should have kept my mouth shut. ;-) I had managed to resist the temptation this far. I really don't see that there is a whole lot of value in fighting over exactly where the aliases file lives, as long as POLA is satisified with a symlink (which is the case now). Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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