From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 7 09:01:11 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3B9537B404 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2003 09:01:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (ns0.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B3E443FCB for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2003 09:01:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) h57FxiMJ012219 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 7 Jun 2003 17:01:06 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)h57FxiYW012218; Sat, 7 Jun 2003 16:59:44 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew) Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 16:59:44 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Kirk Bailey Message-ID: <20030607155944.GA78985@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , Kirk Bailey , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3EE2081D.8000105@netzero.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="5mCyUwZo2JvN/JJP" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3EE2081D.8000105@netzero.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-7.5 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.55 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: path question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 16:01:11 -0000 --5mCyUwZo2JvN/JJP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 11:43:25AM -0400, Kirk Bailey wrote: > What is the ACTUAL location of aliases in the standard out of the box=20 > install of FreeBSD? Sources are in /etc/mail/aliases which is compiled into=20 /etc/mail/aliases.db for sendmail to read. =20 > And is there supposed to be a appearance of it in /etc? IS this a soft or= =20 > hard link? OR am I looking at the actual file? A friend is helping me by= =20 > writing a script to add aliases to the alias file, and the issue has come= =20 > up. There's a symbolic link: /etc/aliases -> /etc/mail/aliases but that's there for backwards compatibility. Any new software should use /etc/mail/aliases by default. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --5mCyUwZo2JvN/JJP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+4gvwdtESqEQa7a0RAnAWAJ0TI8OPbtPNzwhe+pJ7Crozyq5+wwCfRYUC rXUwhfswe0wV1XWqiFU0EKs= =npfh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5mCyUwZo2JvN/JJP--