--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sendmail BIG alias file frontend --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This tool was written for a company that had about 20,000 user aliases in their send mail database. To edit this database with vi is a PITA, to say the least. So I created this little tool for easy web editing. It's not perfect. (What is?) You'll have to set up your Apache CGI user so that it can read/write the alias file. There is no configuration file yet - edit the main perl file. The code comments are still in German, but the documentation in the file is in English already. If I see that people are actually USING this thing, I'll whip up a more appropriate documentation and perhaps even fix a few bugs. :-) How does it work? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Simple. Either you insert new alias entries from the start page or you click on one of the letters. In that case, all matching entries will be displayed, and all NON-matching entries will be written to a /tmp file on the server. (This avoids downloading a 500k HTML file with 480k fields.) When you press Save, the /tmp file will be read and merged with your changes (if any), and written back to the original alias file. The alias file will be overwritten ONLY if you press "save", not if you close the browser or use Windows and your machine crashes. :-) The tool keeps 2 backup generations so nothing should go wrong. What does it not do (yet)? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TODO Priority - keep comments in the alias file (so watch out) 2 - set configuration options via web frontend 3 - present itself as Webmin module 1 - coffee/tea 1! Jens Benecke (jens at. jensbenecke.de), November 2000