sendmail broken??

[Kevin L. McBride]

In article <1990Dec5.084730.5227 at santra.uucp> tsh at hila.hut.fi (Timo Hyvonen) writes:
>I get these to my /usr/adm/lpd-errs -file. System is Interactive 386/ix 2.0.2.
>
>Dec  5 10:57:07 localhost sendmail[7967]: 4 aliases, longest 16 bytes, 74 bytes total
>Dec  5 11:27:07 localhost sendmail[7973]: 4 aliases, longest 16 bytes, 74 bytes total
..
>
>Where should I start looking for the reason? This happens every now and then
>and really randomly, there seems to be no real reason for it - it just starts
>one day and continues until I boot the machine. I should really get rid of 
>this error, there's gonna be another sysadmin in the system and he is not
>even this much experienced. And that's not a lot.

I used to see this problem quite a bit on 2.0.2 myself.  It appears to
be fixed under 2.2.

First, the reason that these messages are being put in /usr/adm/lpd-errs
is that '/etc/syslog.conf' is wrong.  The contents of my syslog.conf file
follows:

=========cut here=============
*.err;kern.debug;auth.notice			/dev/console
kern.debug;daemon,auth.notice;*.err;mail.crit	/usr/adm/messages
mail.debug					/usr/spool/mqueue/syslog

*.alert;kern.err;daemon.err			root

*.emerg						*
=========cut here=============

I never really did figure out why sendmail felt that it had to go
rebuild the alias database at every queue interval (typically 30 minutes
or 1 hour) but that's where the message is coming from.  It's not a
problem, really, just an annoyance.

Yes, sendmail is braindead... but it can be made to work.

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Hope this helps.

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