start multiple sendmail daemons from rc.conf?

Bill Vermillion bv at wjv.com
Tue Nov 25 09:56:08 PST 2003


On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 11:47 , Men gasped, women fainted, and small 
children were reduced to tears as Chris Cook confessed to all:

> Is it possible to start multiple sendmail daemons (using -C
> /different/cf) from rc.conf?

Will this give a different perfomance than the way Sendmail forks
and runs children.  I had 186 sendmail instances running last week
during a big flood of incoming mail.

I'm curious on this point - and will having multiple daemons
improve performance?

Bill
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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com


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