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From: jpe@egr.duke.edu (John P. Eisenmenger)
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Subject: Re: dataless RISC-6000?
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Date: 7 Jan 91 13:52:38 GMT
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From article <1991Jan5.011235.27677@odi.com>, by benson@odi.com (Benson I. Margulies):
> no go. sendmail modifies a file in /usr/lib, and that was just the tip 
> of the iceberger. someday, perhaps AIX will  have /var.

So, build a sendmail that looks for its files elsewhere.  In order to keep
things running smoothly at my site I run the same sendmail everywhere.  This
eliminates having to handle each company's "improvements" to the software
and the config files.  I'm presently running sendmail 5.65 on my '6000 with
only a few changes (mostly bug fixes to sendmail).

Another option would be to use symbolic links in the place of the changing
files and move the actual files to "/var" or wherever.

> Benson I. Margulies

John P. Eisenmenger