Once upon a time, Colin Walters <walters(a)verbum.org> said:
I guess there is a hard dependency between "cron with custom
user
cronjobs" and sendmail. I don't want to break that, and it's probably
too late in the cycle for this change anyways. It does suck to have
everyone take this startup time hit if they're not using custom jobs,
but it's been slow for years, so we can take another cycle of slow.
I think a part of the startup hit is from rebuilding aliases
unconditionally. That should be considered a bug and removed from the
sendmail init script (or at least changed to check if aliases is newer
than aliases.db before calling).
There's a reason sendmail removed auto-rebuilding aliases from the
daemon itself.
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Chris Adams <cmadams(a)hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.