Hello everybody, some weeks ago I've learned that I should not modify any conffiles including /etc/aliases. But today while re-reading the debian policy manual (2.4.1.4) I read :
| /etc/aliases is the source file for the system mail aliases | (e.g., postmaster, usenet, etc.)--it is the one which the | sysadmin and postinst scripts may edit. After | /etc/aliases is edited the program or human editing it must | call newaliases. All MTA packages should come with a | newaliases program, even if it does nothing, but | older MTA packages do not do this so programs should not | fail if newaliases cannot be found. So where's the truth ? I think we should provide a way to edit automatically /etc/aliases because there are a lot of package that need to add aliases. Maybe a script update-aliases (like the one for the window-managers) would be welcome ? But which package would include it : "netbase" ? Cheers, -- Hertzog Raphaël ¤ 0C4CABF1 ¤ http://www.mygale.org/~hra/
