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From: steve@dartvax.UUCP (Steve Campbell)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Tip for users of frozen sendmail configuration files
Message-ID: <1918@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 24-Jun-84 15:45:33 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 24 15:45:33 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 27-Jun-84 02:37:11 EDT
Organization: Dartmouth College
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Subject: Tip for users of frozen sendmail configuration files
Index:	usr.lib/sendmail 4.2BSD

Description:
	The sendmail configuration file, sendmail.cf, allows the
	definition of classes of words using lines beginning with either
	C (for explicit lists of words) or F (for lists retrieved from
	a file).  If you use the latter - reference to a file - and you
	also create a frozen configuration file, sendmail.fc, you
	should be aware that sendmail reads the class-defining file at
	the time it creates the frozen configuration and NOT each time
	it runs.  Therefore if the contents of the class-defining file
	change, you should recreate the frozen configuration file.
Repeat-By:
	See above.  For example, if you use /usr/lib/uucp/L.sys to define
	the class of uucp neighbors, and you add a new system to L.sys,
	sendmail will not recognize it as a member of that class unless
	you remake the sendmail.fc file.
Fix:
	This is not necessarily a bug, but the documentation should
	specify when the class-defining file is and is not read.

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