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- From: weaver@nexus.psu.edu (George M. Weaver)
- Subject: Re: sendmail, in.comsat, and biff
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- Organization: Penn State Astronomy and Astrophysics
- References: <1992Aug25.192829.106681@zeus.calpoly.edu>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 15:05:00 GMT
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- Many of the admins on campus have reported similar sendmail behavior
- after upgrading to 4.1.2 - it seems to "forget" who the local users
- are after running for a while. A fix that seems to work is to move
- the sendmail daemon startup command ("/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q1h")
- to the end of rc.local. I haven't heard a plausible explanation as
- to why this works, although some believe it to be a race condition
- with ypbind, which is also starting up about this time.
-
- -George Weaver
- Computing Facilities Manager
- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
- The Pennsylvania State University
-