Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!mcgill-vision!snorkelwacker!apple!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!ucbvax!TRANSARC.COM!Craig_Everhart From: Craig_Everhart@TRANSARC.COM Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: How do you maintain your .cf? Message-ID: Date: 23 Jul 90 18:50:05 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 19 Back when I was mail admin for andrew.cmu.edu with 8000 users, we had 600 workstations all enqueueing mail for four PO machines. They enqueued using shared files&directories in AFS. The PO machines were the only ones that ran sendmail. The .cf files were identical, and in fact were generated from a configure-mail-system process that compiled and installed dozens and dozens of scripts and things. The configuration process was driven from a program that you told about your installation, what features you wanted or didn't want, how many PO servers you had, how many AFS mail queues you had and what their names were, and the like. One of the fanciest features was doing load balancing on the PO machines, crudely compensating for different speeds of different PO machines by assigning different total amounts of work to the different machines. So, the short answer is that the sendmail.cf files were generated not by hand, but by yet another configuration process other than m4 or ease or IDA. Not that it works that well for non-Internet sites, though. Craig