On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Guy Fraser wrote:
> Andrew Smith wrote:
> ...snip...
>
> > My original question was what I needed to do after I changed "access.db"
> >
> > I do this by editing "access" in a script and then "cd /etc/mail ; make"
> >
> > I prefer to use make since it contains tha makemap command and if it ever
> > changes I don't need to know
> > make clean is unnecessary since I know I have changed "access" and just
> > want to rebuild "access.db"
> >
> > I have found that the answer from Brain Curtis is correct -
> > sendmail does automatically notice "access.db" has changed.
> > (I didn't put any "service restart" or "/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart"
> > in the "sudo" script and it worked first time for the user)
> >
>
> ...snip...
>
> Hi
> Yes that should work.
>
> When you run "make" by it self all the known ".db"s are rehashed.
>
> If you put "make access.db" then only the access.db will be rehashed
>
> Guy
>
>
No, running make will only rehash the *.db files that are older then the
* files. This is one of the functions of make. It will only update the
files that need to be updated.
Mikkel
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