Noel Jones wrote: > You can't pipe to newaliases. > You can use a proto file with comments and some script to create the > input file that newaliases requires. This seems a natural for a > Makefile. > -- Noel Jones I was aiming for something that was "no mistakes" proof for other system administrators.
Meaning: 1) /etc/aliases would be the file to edit (not some other file). 2) "newaliases" would still be the command to run. The hack I came up with was /etc/aliases has comments. /etc/newaliases is my script. Strips comments to a temporary file. It then calls "sendmail -I" to process the aliases. Then it deletes the temp file. Not so elegant. Would anyone else appreciate end of line comments, as an extension to /etc/aliases and *.pcre? What character should introduce such comments?
