The Mail Aliases /etc/aliases on Genba

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2004-08-24 phm restores dynamic generation of /etc/aliases
2004-08 during reinstallation of genba with new mailer exim the original mechanism is lost
2003 phm installs a system of scripts that generate /etc/aliases

to manually edit mail aliases, the source is /var/www/adm/etc/aliases.src
further aliases are generated from the database by /var/www/ffii/assoc/home/makeall.pl
the various sources are put together into /var/www/adm/etc/aliases by cronjob /var/www/adm/bin/hourly.knecht. Sources include
- manually edited aliases /var/www/adm/etc/aliases.src
- project mailing list aliases /var/www/ffii/assoc/home/projaliases.txt
- ffii member aliases /var/www/ffii/assoc/home/nenri/verein/uidmail
/var/www/adm/etc/aliases is copied to /etc/aliases by hourly.root
- editable source of hourly.root is in /var/www/adm/bin/hourly.root, but is not used
- the used version is editable only by root and stored in /usr/local/sbin/hourly.root
hourly.knecht is started from knecht crontab /var/www/adm/cron/crontab.knecht
hourly.root is started from root crontab /var/www/adm/cron/crontab.root
- crontab mustn't be loaded automatically from /var/www/adm/cron/* by any scripts. If automatic loading is necessary, only a copy from a directory which can be written only by the concerned user is acceptable