[H-GEN] Logwatch - sendmail loadaverage?

[Robert Brockway]

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On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, David Jericho wrote:

> Don't edit the sendmail.cf file directly. It's apparently bad voodoo.
> Eric Allman says so. It'd be like editing the Windows registry by hand
> instead of using the appropriate clicky tool.

Just to expand on this, it's ok to edit the sendmail.cf for config options
like this (insofar as it won't actually break anything on the system). The
problem arises if you do this as well as engaging in the sane practice of
managing the .cf through a .mc file.  As soon as you regenerate the .cf
from a .mc you'll overwrite the hand changes you made.  So I agree with
David to avoid editing the .cf directly but I just wanted to clarify this
point.

> To set the above variables in the correct locations, put the below into
> sendmail.mc
>
> define(`confQUEUE_LA',`insert number here')
> define(`confREFUSE_LA',`insert another number here')
>
> Then, run "make" in that directory. Restart sendmail and check out your
> new sendmail.cf file.

Yeah, what he said.

Rob

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