Scott Silva wrote:
on 4-2-2008 4:41 AM Brent L. Bates spake the following:
Sendmail used to automatically compare creation dates of the text
and
database aliases files and when the text one was newer than the
database one,
sendmail would automatically update the database file at a convenient
time.
This made a lot of sense. However, the powers that be decided to
break this
great feature and removed it. I copied it back into to source we use.
Many newer distros add that functionality to the init scripts. I seem to
recall that option had some bad side effects, and that is why sendmail
removed it. I wish I could remember what the problem was.
Just guessing, it probably relates to the gazillion ways unix-like
systems have of locking files that tend not to work and the fact that
concurrent sendmail instances are a lot more likely to conflict than a
user typing 'newaliases'.
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Les Mikesell
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