Other Files Used for Mail Services
Several other files and directories are used for mail services,
as shown in Table 3–10.
Table 3-10 Other Files Used
for Mail Services | | |
|---|
/etc/default/sendmail
| File
| Lists the environment variables for the startup script for sendmail.
|
/etc/shells
| File
| Lists the valid login shells.
|
/etc/mail/cf/sh
| Directory
| Contains shell scripts that are used by the m4 build
process and migration aids.
|
/system/volatile/sendmail.pid
| File
| File that lists the PID of the listening daemon.
|
/usr/sbin/check-permissions
| File
| Checks permissions of :include: aliases and .forward files and their parent directory path for correct
permissions.
|
|
| File
| Verifies that sendmail is able to determine
the fully qualified host name.
|
|
| File
| Queries and edits single records in database maps for sendmail.
|
|
| File
| Mail notification daemon.
|
|
| File
| Builds binary forms of keyed maps.
|
|
| Symbolic Link
| A symbolic link to /usr/lib/sendmail. Used
to create the binary form of the alias database. Previously in /usr/bin.
|
|
| File
| Error message logger, used by sendmail.
|
|
| File
| Perl script for starting the client-side remote mail queue.
|
/var/mail/mailbox1, /var/mail/mailbox2
| File
| Mailboxes for delivered mail.
|
|
| Directory
| Storage for mail that is delivered by the client daemon.
|
|
| Directory
| Storage for mail that is delivered by the master daemon.
|
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