On Wednesday 24 September 2008 23:46:37 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
On Thursday, 25 September 2008 at 00:35, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >>>I have some services found being activated by default that should be
> >>>removed for the following reasons:
> >>>
> >>>1. sendmail: starts way too slow,
> >>
> >>Sendmail startup should only be slow if your dns is broken or you've
> >>removed the localhost entry from your hosts file. Either of those
> >>needs to be fixed anyway.
> >
> >the slow part is the aliases generation.
>
> Oh, if only unix-like systems had a common tool to quickly determine if
> the source text file is newer than the dependent db...
Um, am I missing something here or is the answer simply:
make
bash(1):
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CONDITIONAL EXPRESSIONS
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file1 -nt file2
True if file1 is newer (according to modification date) than
file2, or if file1 exists and file2 does not.
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