newaliases
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Authored by brooks on Mar 10 2025, 6:14 PM.

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jhb
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Summary

This script runs on firstboot and runs newaliases if /etc/mail/aliases
exists and /etc/mail/aliases.db does not. This allows image creation
scripts to avoid running newaliases.

Due to the switch to dma as the default mailier, this is a no-op in
practice unless the image has configured an alternate mailer.

/etc/rc.d/sendmail has the ability to create/update aliases.db, but it
is disabled by default even if sendmail is enabled.

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rG FreeBSD src repository

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Buildable 62906
Build 59790: arc lint + arc unit

Event Timeline

brooks created this revision.Mar 10 2025, 6:14 PM

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brooks requested review of this revision.Mar 10 2025, 6:14 PM

Harbormaster completed remote builds in B62856: Diff 152099.Mar 10 2025, 6:14 PM

brooks added a child revision: D49322: release/vm: don't run newaliases in VM root.Mar 11 2025, 10:25 PM

jhb added inline comments.Thu, Mar 13, 2:29 PM

libexec/rc/rc.d/Makefile
318	Hmm, is this really sendmail specific? My thought was that this should be installed anytime the /usr/bin/newaliases binary (which is a hard link to mailwrapper) is installed.

brooks added inline comments.Thu, Mar 13, 5:40 PM

libexec/rc/rc.d/Makefile
318	Indeed, it should be in utilities.

Move script into the default package (rc).

Harbormaster completed remote builds in B62905: Diff 152231.Thu, Mar 13, 6:39 PM

Be a little more friendly to installations without mail bits. It's
unclear that this really matters, but it does appear to be at least
minimally possible to install a system without email support.

Harbormaster completed remote builds in B62906: Diff 152232.Thu, Mar 13, 7:27 PM

I've put the script in the rc package rather then adding a new utilities section for now.