Matthew Miller wrote:
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 11:48:37AM +0100, Bill Crawford wrote:
>> I think a part of the startup hit is from rebuilding aliases
>> unconditionally. That should be considered a bug and removed from the
>> sendmail init script (or at least changed to check if aliases is newer
>> than aliases.db before calling).
> if [ aliases -nt aliases.db ]; then
> ...
> fi
What if aliases includes other files?
:include: in the expansion is processed at expansion time and changes in
those files don't require rebuilding the db. This is handy, for
example, to let some user manage a mail group by editing the file that
is included.
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Les Mikesell
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