On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 03:58:53AM -0500, Jeremy Kitchen said: > On Friday 25 June 2004 10:41 pm, Stephen Gran wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 08:54:06PM -0400, Ace Suares said: > > > Setting up clamav-base (0.73-2) ... > > > > > > Note, this "newaliases" command does not make use of the contents of: > > > /etc/aliases > > > because it is in fact just a wrapper for qmail-newu, which uses: > > > /etc/qmail/users/assign > > > for a similar purpose. > > > > > > See the man page for qmail-newu(8) for more details > > > > Ah, that is a bug. What is the output of (as root) `which newaliases`? > > I'd like to not use qmail's newaliases if it's going to act like that, > > but I have to for sendmail, so it's kind of a problem. Maybe this is as > > good a place to ask as any, since there are many email admin's on a > > variety of MTA's here: what MTA's actually need and implement > > newaliases, and what are testable ways to deal wth them? > > I guess I don't understand what the purpose of > running /var/qmail/bin/qmail-newu when installing clamav is... if you could > elaborate on that, I may be able to provide my input.
The postinstall script adds an entry for clamav: root to /etc/aliases, and then since at least sendmail needs it, it runs newaliases afterwards. Apparently on your system, at least, newaliases is wrapper that calls /var/qmail/bin/qmail-newu. I am trying to dicover how to avoid that, while still having it do the right thing for other MTA's. qmail is not officially supported by Debian, but so many people use it that I would like to make life easy for them with the same packages. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Of course it's possible to love a human | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | being if you don't know them too well. | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | -- Charles Bukowski | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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