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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