"Simonsen, Larry" wrote:
>
>         > it would be nice that since sendmail uses syslog to have > syslog
> and then
>         > sendmail added as part of the inet daemon.
>         >
>         > I know that it makes the job larger for the number of > processes
> but would
>         > reduce the number of background jobs running on the system.
>
> any other comments on this?

For performance reasons, you don't want to run syslog under inetd, and the way
the MPE syslog daemon is currently written, you can't run it under inetd
anyway.

IIRC, sendmail has an inetd mode for handling incoming e-mail.  But you would
still have to run a batch job so sendmail would periodically process the
outbound queue, so using inetd doesn't gain you anything.

Why exactly is a large number of background jobs a bad thing?  Please be
specific.  If it's because it makes :SHOWJOB listings cluttered, well, it's
easy to write a UDC or command file that filters out the background stuff from
:SHOWJOB output and just shows you the "interesting" jobs.  I did this back at
cccd.edu, and called it SJX for "ShowJob eXclude".
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