We recommend that you configure EGD to install in /var/run
instead, and that you indicate the new path to sendmail with this confRAND_FILE mc macro.
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Note that the file: prefix is literal and must be present. The file, here named /var/
run/randfile, contains at least 128 bytes of random data.
For sucha file to work, you need to update its contents more often than once every
10 minutes. If you update it less often, sendmail might refuse to use it upon startup
(as a daemon or simply to send an email message). That is, the modification time of
the file must always be within 10 minutes of any envocation of sendmail.
5.3.2 Digital Certificate Acronyms
The sendmail program uses a number of acronyms and abbreviations to refer to the
various components of digital certificates. They are listed in Table 5-4.
For example, you might see a reference to ???install a CA cert??? in this book or in the
sendmail documentation. This phrase means to install a digital certificate issued by a
certificate authority. When you install the certs of the issuing CA, you are generally
installing only the public parts.
You are encouraged to refer to Table 5-4 while reading the next few sections, where
these acronyms, abbreviations, and terms are frequently used.
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