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Date:      Mon, 4 Feb 2019 13:11:34 +0100 (CET)
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= <Trond.Endrestol@fagskolen.gjovik.no>
To:        FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: /etc/aliases removed in 12.0-RELEASE?
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1902041308540.51631@mail.fig.ol.no>
In-Reply-To: <12f08437-f4b8-2004-2657-d39bfdf6a95d@itsacon.net>
References:  <12f08437-f4b8-2004-2657-d39bfdf6a95d@itsacon.net>

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On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 13:01+0100, B.J.Scharp wrote:

> However, on my mailserver I got this message:
> 
> ---
> The following file will be removed, as it no longer exists in
> FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE: /etc/aliases
> ---
> 
> Why was this removed, and what's the replacement? I can't find anything
> on this in the release notes.
> 
> I use that file quite a lot...

/etc/aliases was usually a symlink to mail/aliases. The latter file 
still exists, and you can easily recreate the symlink using:

ln -s mail/aliases /etc/aliases

-- 
Trond.



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