On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, John Summerfield wrote:

>Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 08:17:44 +0800
>From: John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>Subject: Re: sendmail RPM containing /etc/aliases 
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I think /etc/aliases should be independent from sendmail. There is
>> many software using. Please consider moving it out of the sendmail
>> RPM and making it standalone.
>
>
>It's part of sendmail; it's a standard sendmail configuration file. The only 
>change should be to put it in the new sendmail-standard location, 
>/etc/mail/aliases.

I completely agree with this recommendation too.  Perhaps it
should be submitted to bugzilla to move it to /etc/mail/.  It
definitely is belonging to sendmail though, no question
regardless how many programs access it.  Those programs are
merely configuration front ends to the file, which is owned by
sendmail.

TTYL


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