Re: sendmail fails to generate sendmail.cf

[Richard A Nelson <cowboy@debian.org>]

On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:

>    Updating sendmail databases ...
>    Checking sendmail.cf and databases.
>    egrep: /etc/mail/databases: No such file or directory
>    egrep: /etc/mail/databases: No such file or directory
>    egrep: /etc/mail/databases: No such file or directory
>    egrep: /etc/mail/databases: No such file or directory
>    egrep: /etc/mail/databases: No such file or directory
>    egrep: /etc/mail/databases: No such file or directory
>    egrep: /etc/mail/databases: No such file or directory
>    egrep: /etc/mail/databases: No such file or directory
>    egrep: /etc/mail/databases: No such file or directory
>    egrep: /etc/mail/databases: No such file or directory
>    egrep: /etc/mail/databases: No such file or directory
>    egrep: /etc/mail/databases: No such file or directory
>    egrep: /etc/mail/databases: No such file or directory
>    Reload the running sendmail now with the new configuration? [Y] n
> 
> and in fact there was no /etc/mail/databases.

gads... /etc/mail/databases is built by a backgrounded process (that
in TLS-1 and TLS-2 had a typo that prevented /etc/mail/databases from
being created) - causing a potential window wherein the files could
be referenced before being created ;-{

I'll fix this tomorrow (gotta run now)

THanks...

-- 
Rick Nelson
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