Hello all,
When you create a new list using newlist the /etc/aliases file is not automatically updated. I understand that this used to be done in previous versions, but that the alias file update is currently broken. So I am now faced with a problem. I want to deploy mailman at a clients site, and really need an automatic update. So I could go out and write some wrapper script that would do the trick, or try to hack mailman itself.
But the I'd run the danger of doing something that someone else might already have done, and being the lazy programmer I am I'd like to avoid that :-)
So hence my questions: Will the /etc/aliases update work in the next release? If so, how long till we see it? Has somedbody maybe an interim patch to make this feature work? Or has somebody another solution?
TIA
Krist
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According to Krist van Besien:
I don't think this is "broken", it's simply not done any more because it's not necessarily a good idea for everyone. Some sites, do not use /etc/aliases or have completely different requirements. E.g. we are updating our aliases from a central database.
+gg
-- Gerhard.Gonter@wu-wien.ac.at Fax: +43/1/31336/702 g.gonter@ieee.org Zentrum fuer Informatikdienste, Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien, Austria
In message <200005021308.PAA17643@luzern.West.NL>, Krist van Besien writes:
I have a such a patch for Mailman 1.1 and sendmail. I'd be happy to send it to you, if you want it. You still need to run newaliases as well, though.
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According to Krist van Besien:
I don't think this is "broken", it's simply not done any more because it's not necessarily a good idea for everyone. Some sites, do not use /etc/aliases or have completely different requirements. E.g. we are updating our aliases from a central database.
+gg
-- Gerhard.Gonter@wu-wien.ac.at Fax: +43/1/31336/702 g.gonter@ieee.org Zentrum fuer Informatikdienste, Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien, Austria
In message <200005021308.PAA17643@luzern.West.NL>, Krist van Besien writes:
I have a such a patch for Mailman 1.1 and sendmail. I'd be happy to send it to you, if you want it. You still need to run newaliases as well, though.
-- Ted Cabeen http://www.pobox.com/~secabeen secabeen@pobox.com Check Website or finger for PGP/GPG Public Key secabeen@uchicago.edu "I have taken all knowledge to be my province." -F. Bacon secabeen@cabeen.org "Human kind cannot bear very much reality."-T.S.Eliot cabeen@netcom.com
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