Re: [Fencepost-users] Fencepost and mail aliases

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hi!

On Fri, 13 Jun 2014 17:58:41 -0400, Lisa Marie Maginnis <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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 [...]

Sounds good.  I take it that the mailing list processing is handled early
enough, so that it'd not be affected by a major aliases files screw-up?


Grüße,
 Thomas

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