On 05/04/2011 11:43 AM, Honza Horak wrote: > Hi, > > I just wonder what is the difference between /etc/aliases and > /etc/mail/aliases, if any. I guess /etc/aliases is only newer location > of the same file, am I right? > > I'm thinking of this because ypserv uses /etc/mail/aliases by default, > but it seems to be obsolete (Fedora now uses /etc/aliases), see > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699826 > > Does anybody know the reason of the location change or do I miss something? > > I'm tempting to change the default location in ypserv too, does anybody > see a problem with that? > > Cheers, > > Honza If I recall correctly - the old sendmail way was /etc/aliases - the new sendmail way is /etc/mail/aliases .. as far as I know that has the default for sendmail for some years. Perhaps its a desire to be backward compatible with the 1980's ... :-) /etc/aliases should probably be linked to /etc/mail/aliases if its still needed. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
