[Fencepost-users] Fencepost and mail aliases

[Lisa Marie Maginnis]

Hello Everyone,

We had an issue last week where a fencepost user made a mistake while making 
changes to 
/com/mailer/aliases. It was suggested to the FSF SysAdmins that it might be a 
good idea 
to run DIFFMON(1) agaisnt the alias file. I agree, and have set this up. 

For those of you who do not know what DIFFMON(1) is, it is a simple program 
that checks 
on the state of files via a cronjob and then emails any changes (a diff) to an 
arbitrary email address.

What I would like to do is point this script at this mailing list, so that 
every time a 
fencepost user makes a change to the aliases file all users are notified. 
Obviously the 
script would be low traffic, since it will only email the list when people 
modify that 
file. The cron will run every hour.

If anyone has any objections to this, please let me know. Otherwise I am going 
to point 
DIFFMON(1) at this mailing list on Monday morning.

Thanks & Happy Hacking everyone!

-- 
~Lisa Marie Maginnis
Senior System Administrator
Free Software Foundation
http://fsf.org http://gnu.org
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