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From: ghelmer@dsuvax.dsu.edu (Guy Helmer)
Subject: Re: sendmail 5.65c/IDA 1.4.4 - problem
Message-ID: <1993Feb1.223646.16255@dsuvax.dsu.edu>
Organization: Dakota State University
References: <C1GyHB.9Av@malihh.hanse.de> <1993Jan28.150711.23605@dsuvax.dsu.edu> <1993Jan31.032029.1783@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1993 22:36:46 GMT
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In <1993Jan31.032029.1783@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
>In article <1993Jan28.150711.23605@dsuvax.dsu.edu> ghelmer@dsuvax.dsu.edu (Guy Helmer) writes:
>>I have had the same trouble with sendmail/IDA under 386BSD 0.1 using GDBM.
>>I've found that I have to kill the sendmail daemon to be able to
>>successfully run 'sendmail -bi' or 'newaliases', then restart the daemon
>>('sendmail -bd -q30m').
>I believe this is because GDBM insists on locking the database. Try a
>different database package.
Yep, using SDBM in place of GDBM fixed this problem, as well as the
memory hoarding problem I reported in another message.
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Guy Helmer, Dakota State University Computing Services - ghelmer@dsuvax.dsu.edu