• Bug#263322: apache: no way to stop postinst from modifying /etc/aliases

    From Daniel Kobras@1:229/2 to Fabio Massimo Di Nitto on Wed Aug 18 00:20:06 2004
    From: [email protected]

    reopen 263322 =
    tags 263322 + woody
    thanks

    On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 05:04:09PM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
    [apache postinst adding webmaster to /etc/aliases]
    this bug is already fixed in sarge/sid. There is no way we can fix
    it for woody.

    The apache postinst is deliberately breaking local configuration without
    a sane way to stop it. That's a blatant bug and an obvious candidate for woody-proposed-updates in my eyes. At the very least, use getent to look
    for an existing webmaster alias instead of grepping /etc/aliases.

    This bug is so annoying because it's extremely hard to work around it in
    a sane and permanent way. Consider the webmaster alias being defined in
    NIS or LDAP, for example.

    Regards,

    Daniel.



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