Remco van de Meent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 08:35:35AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > > : Would it be possible for the sendmailconfig to update these databases? > : It wouldn't be that hard, I think. Also, how about updating the defailts > : so that they are stored in /etc/mail instead of /etc? > > They default to /etc/mail, except for aliases.db, which should be in /etc > (Debian Policy, 4.5).
I know what policy says, but this is not how it works. mailertable, etc. are in /etc and not /etc/mail. > Because of the different db-structures you can use (hash, btree, etc.), I'd > say don't let an automatic install program update those databases. It should > even be able to process customized sendmail.cf's in order to work without > failure. I personally wouldn't want any program changing those databases > itself... It's a pain to manually have to run a long makemap command each time something is updated. There has GOT to be a better way... -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting & programming [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade) www.debian.org | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Visit the Air Capital Linux Users Group on the web at http://www.aclug.org
