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Re: mail aliases

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Jun 13 11:17:34 2005

Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 11:16:53 -0400
Message-Id: <200506131516.j5DFGrmr013063@egyptian-gods.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Laura Baldwin <boojum@MIT.EDU>
CC: testers@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: <200506131316.j5DDGbka002013@geskekelud.mit.edu>

> It looks like 9.4.9 replaces /etc/mail/aliases with a new file

I missed that this was happening to people on Solaris machines.  The
mechanism which looks for a '^#.*Athena' line is specific to Linux.

Bob, do you know why the config file mechanism is replacing
/etc/mail/aliases even though we haven't been making any changes in
the release to that file?

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