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From: steve@nuchat.UUCP (Steve Nuchia)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: aliases dbm files sensitive to .cf changes
Message-ID: <7701@nuchat.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 89 16:51:38 GMT
Organization: South Coast Computing Services, Inc. - Houston, Tx
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Any time the primary mode of interaction with an artifact
is discovery something is deeply wrong.

I recently discovered that the format of the aliases dbm files
is sensitive to the configuration.  This bites you when trying
to test major changes to sendmail.cf.  I wanted to leave most of
the traffic going through the normal configuration and divert
a small part of it through the new one, a complete re-write.
But the aliases.pag file is 32Kb under the old one and 51Kb
under the new one, built from identical aliases files, and
only one at a time will work.

Is there a good reason for the difference, or could it be
fixed?  There really are good reasons for wanting to run
multiple configurations in parallel, at least transiently.

I'm working with 5.61.
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