Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 14:39:47 -0400 (EDT) From: william pechter ILEX <pechter@stars.sed.monmouth.army.mil> To: FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-hackers) Subject: Sendmail Message-ID: <199508101842.LAA16705@freefall.FreeBSD.org>
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I just picked the following off usenet... this is an excerpt on a problem a user was having -- but I think he's got a point on the symlink vs. hardlink for mailq and newaliases. Bill > From: Eric Allman <eric@cs.berkeley.edu> > Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail > Subject: Re: 8.7 installation > Date: 6 Aug 1995 15:03:28 +0100 [section on troubleshooting 8.7 removed ...] > The other thing that is normally linked to sendmail is newaliases. > (For some reason that I have never understood, the BSD install scripts > prefer to use hard links instead of soft links; when I install them > I always make newaliases and mailq be soft links to the sendmail > binary so that if you replace that one the support programs are > automatically up to date -- you might want to consider that in the > future.) > > eric
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