Freezing Sendmail Config Files (Was: Frequency of NFS lock problems w/ NFS mounted mail spool)

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From: Keith McNeill
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 14:21

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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
-- 
    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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From: mcneill@devon.co.uk (Keith McNeill)
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Subject: Freezing Sendmail Config Files (Was: Frequency of NFS lock problems w/ NFS mounted mail spool)
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