steve@dartvax.UUCP (Steve Campbell) (06/24/84)
Subject: Tip for users of frozen sendmail configuration files
Index: usr.lib/sendmail 4.2BSD
Description:
The sendmail configuration file, sendmail.cf, allows the
definition of classes of words using lines beginning with either
C (for explicit lists of words) or F (for lists retrieved from
a file). If you use the latter - reference to a file - and you
also create a frozen configuration file, sendmail.fc, you
should be aware that sendmail reads the class-defining file at
the time it creates the frozen configuration and NOT each time
it runs. Therefore if the contents of the class-defining file
change, you should recreate the frozen configuration file.
Repeat-By:
See above. For example, if you use /usr/lib/uucp/L.sys to define
the class of uucp neighbors, and you add a new system to L.sys,
sendmail will not recognize it as a member of that class unless
you remake the sendmail.fc file.
Fix:
This is not necessarily a bug, but the documentation should
specify when the class-defining file is and is not read.
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