Autor: Richard Welty Fecha: A: exim-users Asunto: Re: [Exim] criticism/comment about missing info in install docs
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001 17:51:20 +0300, Vadim Vygonets
<vadik-exim@???> wrote:
>Quoth John Horne on Thu, Aug 02, 2001:
>> What operating system are you using? I would have suspected that all (?)
>> unix/linux systems would have had an /etc/aliases file installed as part of
>> the operating system installation.
>
>New sendmail versions have /etc/mail/aliases instead. And I
>heard about Linux distros that didn't install /etc/aliases unless
>you installed sendmail.
i ran into this recently when installing exim on an OpenBSD 2.8
system. i think this is going to be come increasingly common.
probably the way to deal with it is to put a note about the
possibility in the comments in the default exim configuration file.
