Steve Tylock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
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> I have fastforward, and have modified most of the backend to work
> with ~user/.qmail, and still run the rest out of /etc/aliases.
>
> I'd like this backend to work as a user other than root, but
> newaliases requires the file /etc/aliases.tmp, and I can't make
> that a link...
>
> Any ideas on solutions short of:
> using a group permission on /etc
> hacking into the newaliases code myself
I don't think there is any way short of hacking the code. Here is the patch you
want:
http://www.davideous.com/misc/fastforward-0.51_aliasloc.patch
This patch makes the filename for the database to update the first argument
passed to newalises. Beware that this patch does not update the documentation
or any of the error messages.
- David Harris
Principal Engineer, DRH Internet Services
