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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!devonuk!mcneill
- From: mcneill@devon.co.uk (Keith McNeill)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
- Subject: Freezing Sendmail Config Files (Was: Frequency of NFS lock problems w/ NFS mounted mail spool)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.142137.7907@devon.co.uk>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 14:21:37 GMT
- References: <5388@dove.nist.gov>
- Organization: Devon Systems International
- Lines: 25
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- > You'd probably need a way to update all the non-diskless clients'
- > /etc/sendmail.cf files from time to time, but with so many workstations,
- > I bet you've already had to find a mechanism to do that sort of thing.
- >
- > -- Stan Janet
- > stan@magi.ncsl.nist.gov
-
- sorta off the subject but....I just flew in from the US therefore I'm
- completely brain dead with jet lag from hell...anyway..
-
- I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere. A while ago I was having a strange
- sendmail problem. The problem was that I was freezing the sendmail config
- file. Apparently this is silently broken with SunOS 4.1.2 (at least). SOoooo
-
- DO NOT FREEZE YOUR SENDMAIL CONFIG FILE (i.e. don't do a /usr/lib/sendmail -bz).
-
- Freezing the config file was only really useful as a performance improvement
- back when we had 30 users on a VAX 11/780. Not as useful now with SS10s
- sitting on everybody's desk.
-
- Keith
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- Keith McNeill | Devon Systems International
- +44 071 499 8381 | 14 Old Park Lane
- mcneill@devon.co.uk | London W1Y 3LH UK
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