On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 10:55:05AM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote:
> Henning Brauer writes:
> > server!". haha.). Same for big-todo which gains nothing on many filesystems
> > and the most time useless big DNS patch.
> Big-todo is essential if you are running your server close to its
> ability to delivery messages. Sometimes you will go over its ability,
> and then the todo/intd directories grow extremely large. Most local
> filesystems I've seen don't deal well with directories over 20,000
> entries.
Noticed the "most time useless"? That's different from "always useless".
>From my observation many people just use this patch because they think
something like "well, I have 500 users, a patch having "big" in its name
must be good".
> > You are forcing people to patch with not releasing an updated qmail.
> Besides which, the documentation is horribly out of date. inetd
> shouldn't be mentioned. People should be told to use daemontools.
> Qmail needs a setup program like tinydns and dnscache have.
Big ACK.
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