Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 22:50:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@FreeBSD.org> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> 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: <14743.34963.992897.355009@horsey.gshapiro.net> In-Reply-To: <200008140541.WAA07551@netplex.com.au> References: <14742.62711.630716.409488@horsey.gshapiro.net> <200008140541.WAA07551@netplex.com.au>
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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. When we (sendmail) made the change in 8.10, our ultimate goals where to get all of the configuration files in a single place to make it easier to administer and to reduce the clutter in /etc/. For better or worse, we considered the aliases file one of our configuration files since usually the MTA is the one who uses it and most (all?) UNIX OS's ship with sendmail. Perhaps this was too presumptious. For what it's worth, I don't consider /etc/mail/ to be "sendmail-private". If we were going to create a sendmail-private directory, it would have been /etc/sendmail/. Other operating systems include non-sendmail related files in /etc/mail (e.g., /etc/mail/mailer.conf on *BSD, /etc/mail/Mail.rc on SunOS 5.X). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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