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Re: [cobalt-users] rehashing /etc/virtusertable

On Monday 4th September Mike Fritsch tumbled out of bed and

> Can any one tell me why you would need to rehash the virtualusertable?

Because sendmail (by default) is configured to use hash tables for
lookups. They're a lot faster (several orders of magnitude for recursive
or multiple lookups in large tables) than flat text files so allow the
sendmail process to be much more CPU efficient.

Hope that helps

Regards

Graeme Fowler
Systems Administrator
graeme.f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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