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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: BSD demon?
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1993 10:20:14 GMT
Message-ID: <CCB8ps.126@sugar.NeoSoft.COM>
References: <CBzDyp.82@cyb.fred.com> <BZS.93Aug22181552@world.std.com> <MIKE.93Aug22154833@pdx006.intel.com>
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In article <MIKE.93Aug22154833@pdx006.intel.com> mike@ichips.intel.com (Mike Haertel) writes:
> >Ah, but which daemon is he supposed to be?

> I'd swear it has to be sendmail, which is without question the most
> diabolical program in 4BSD. ]:-)

I'll say. I just finished hacking a sendmail.cf for a mixed OSI and TCP
network. It eventually came clean, and I figured I'd licked the bugger.
So I decided to try upgrading our gateway machine.

Nope. Sendmail *still* despises uucp. After several days of messing with
it I'm back to using smail 2.5...
-- 
Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
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