From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 17 12:45:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from aic-gw.mlink.net (aic-gw.mlink.net [209.104.118.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F42114E4E for ; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 12:45:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@AIC-GW.MLINK.NET) Received: (qmail 12538 invoked by uid 1000); 17 Jun 1999 19:45:01 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 17 Jun 1999 19:45:01 -0000 Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 15:45:01 -0400 (EDT) From: matt To: Ben Smithurst Cc: Scott Benjamin , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail VS Qmail In-Reply-To: <19990617192951.A16567@rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Ben Smithurst wrote: [...] : should do something like what you want, much more efficiently than just : doing system("..."). (I'm assuming you're using touch(1) only to create : the file, and don't care about updating the atime/mtime of the file.) Yes, touch is only to create the file. AS for using poor system calls, my knowledge of perl is VERY VERY limited, all I know is that it works, I appreciate you putting proper perl programming code though.. It was just a quick dirty thing to make it work, and I really don't know Perl more then being able to semi read it and do basic things with it =/ : ObThread: I like exim, http://www.exim.org. Pretty much sendmail : compatible, but more supposedly more secure, faster, and in my opinion : is easier to configure. Although I have been *very* tempted to switch to : Postfix, I have had no problems with exim yet though. : : -- : Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D : ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and : | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.u Matt -- matt@AIC-GW.MLINK.NET To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message