Sendmail, load average, and vmunix files

From: Saul Tannenbaum <stannenb_at_emerald.tufts.edu>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 19:42:32 -0400 (EDT)

Folks,

I recently discovered that the stock Berkeley sendmail (8.6.12) will
not run the mail queue if the /vmunix file you have in place isn't
the one from which you booted the OSF. This is because sendmail's
attempt to calculate the load average fails, sendmail believes that
you're over the load average threshold, and declines to run the
queue.

I used the default load average calculation from the sendmail distribution.

Do any of the other methods work better?

Has anyone written the code to get the load average in a more robust way?

Thanks in advance, and I'll, of course, summarize to the list.

        - Saul

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