Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 15:31:42 -0700 From: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com>, chad@dcfinc.com Cc: Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm@physik.fu-berlin.de>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail in -stable and aliases Message-ID: <199804222231.PAA21410@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> In-Reply-To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> "Re: sendmail in -stable and aliases" (Apr 22, 2:59pm)
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On Apr 22, 2:59pm, Tom wrote: } Subject: Re: sendmail in -stable and aliases } No. The alias database is queried when necessary. It is only opened } when queried. The Bat book has a good dicussion of this, including what } sendmail does if it trying to access the aliases database while newaliases } is creating it. } } I think this is a bug in sendmail. It is probably forgetting to close } the secondary aliases database, so it does not notice the new version. } Remember, the primary aliases database does work properly. Was the sendmail daemon restarted after the sendmail.cf was modified to add the secondary alias database? If the sendmail.cf was modified without restarting the daemon, then local mail will see the new alias database because sendmail will read the .cf file when it is invoked, but incoming mail will cause the sendmail daemon to fork a copy of itself that won't reread the .cf file and therefore won't know that the secondary alias database has been added to the .cf. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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