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From: william pechter ILEX <pechter@stars.sed.monmouth.army.mil>
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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