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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:16816 comp.mail.sendmail:16470 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!olivea!hookup!news.Direct.CA!scipio.cyberstore.ca!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!nntp.cac.washington.edu!olsenc From: olsenc@kodiak.ee.washington.edu (Clint Olsen) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: NetBSD-1.0, sendmail v8.6.9 & newaliases Date: 16 Feb 1995 00:26:23 GMT Organization: University of Washington, Seattle Lines: 26 Message-ID: <3hu63f$b6m@nntp1.u.washington.edu> References: <fen-1502950858360001@lust.comedia.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kodiak.ee.washington.edu In article <fen-1502950858360001@lust.comedia.com>, Fen Labalme <fen@comedia.com> wrote: >I've recently upgraded to NetBSD-1.0 which comes with sendmail v8.6.9 >and I'm noticing in my /var/log/maillog file that every time sendmail >is invoked to collect or send a message, the aliases file is being >read and updated. > >Is this a bug or a feature? > >-- >Fen >~~~ WE ARE EVERYWHERE! JUST SAY "KNOW"! >Fen Labalme Creator of networked educational and >Broadcatch Technologies inter-personal communications; Human ><fen@comedia.com> & electronic civil-liberties activist. >PGP Key ID: 1024/0AF8FD URL="http://www.comedia.com/people/fen" This was probably enabled at cf compile time. If you can, check out the m4 source file used to generate your sendmail.cf. There should be a swtich to turn it off (define). I was checking the manpage and I noticed that 8.6.9 doesn't have an option for freeze configuration files. Is this supported? I recall that this was a real problem on Sun sendmail. -Clint