Bryce Nesbitt a écrit :
> 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.
>
just tell postfix to use another place:
alias_maps = /etc/postfix/autogenerated/aliases
alias_database = ${alias_maps}
then edit /etc/aliases as you want, and use your shell to generate
/etc/postfix/autogenerated/aliases.
as Noel said, put this in a Makefile...
> 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?
why fight against the system. isn't this ok:
# joe blah blah
joe jim
(that is: comments on their own lines).
