right now, /etc/rc.d/sendmail contains code to regenerate aliases,
genericstable etc. on startup, if needed. I wonder if we shouldn't offer
regenerating them without restarting sendmail?

I thought of moving the commands into /etc/mail/Makefile, and call that
from /etc/rc.d/sendmail then. See the attached /etc/mail/Makefile below.

Comments?


 - Hubert



update:
	@# check modifications on /etc/mail/aliases
	@if [ "/etc/mail/aliases" -nt "/etc/mail/aliases.db" ]; then \
		echo \
    "/etc/mail/aliases newer than /etc/mail/aliases.db, regenerating" ; \
		/usr/bin/newaliases ; \
	fi
	@# check couple of common db files, too
	@for f in genericstable virtusertable domaintable mailertable; do  \
		if [ -r "/etc/mail/$$f" -a "/etc/mail/$$f" -nt "/etc/mail/$$f.db" ]; \
		then \
			echo \
    "/etc/mail/$$f newer than /etc/mail/$$f.db, regenerating" ; \
			/usr/sbin/makemap hash /etc/mail/$$f < /etc/mail/$$f ; \
		fi ; \
	done

-- 
*** Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
*** FB Informatik, FH Regensburg, Pruefeningerstr. 58, 93048 Regensburg