Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net> [2002-09-20 06:24:10 -0400]: > The head of the file says it was generated by exim, which I > thought I purged and replaced with postfix. I made some changes > to the file... The head of the file is a comment put there by exim. Since exim is the first to get installed on new systems it finds the system without an /etc/aliases file and creates one. It places the comment there to that effect. When postfix is installed it keeps the comments in /etc/aliases. Or rather more precisely the postrm script of exim does not remove the comments it placed in /etc/aliases. It can't remote /etc/aliases since that would be much worse. Note that if you do actually install postfix first then the /etc/aliases file is much different and only contains one entry, IIRC. I should file a bug on that. Bob
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