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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!swidir.switch.ch!in2p3.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!ensta!itesec!sidhe.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: sendmail keep rebuilding aliases Date: 5 Feb 1996 12:28:36 GMT Organization: Herve Schauer Consultants Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4f4t5k$4r8@sidhe.hsc-sec.fr> References: <4f0ch5$6ef@brickbat.mindspring.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sidhe.hsc-sec.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <4f0ch5$6ef@brickbat.mindspring.com>, Keat Seong Chan <keat@shiaowen.mindspring.com> wrote: > hi there, > I've noticed a weird problem after I installed FreeBSD for my > machine. sendmail keep rebuilding aliases every 30 minutes. Is it normal? > I have checked crontab, but there is not crantab for root. Look into the .cf, you probably have the auto-rebuild parameter set. To change it, use the following parameter in the .mc and regenerate the .cf with the "make foo.cf" command in /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/cf/cf: dnl # I don't want to rebuild aliases automatically define(`confAUTO_REBUILD', `False')dnl [[ cc'ed to Keat ]] -- Ollivier ROBERT -=-=- FreeBSD 2.x FAQ maintainer -=-=- roberto@freebsd.org -=-=-=-=-=- Support The Free UNIX Systems ! FreeBSD Linux NetBSD -=-=-=-=-=-