Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 16:59:44 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Kirk Bailey <idiot1@netzero.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: path question Message-ID: <20030607155944.GA78985@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3EE2081D.8000105@netzero.net> References: <3EE2081D.8000105@netzero.net>
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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
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