On 2/6/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Will McDonald</b> <<a href="mailto:wmcdonald@gmail.com">wmcdonald@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> I assume it was done previously with a sendmail -bt -dsomething ?<br>><br>> # sendmail -bt -d < /dev/null | grep Version<br>><br>> Are there sendmail releases this doesn't work on or gives unreliable output?
<br><br>Futher Googling also turned up...<br><br>echo '$v' | /usr/sbin/sendmail -bt<br><br>Which returns just the version.<br></blockquote></div><br>Knowing the version is not the problem. If I remember correctly something like below was used:
<br><br># /usr/lib/sendmail -bt -d < /dev/null | grep FLOCK<br clear="all"><br>Still it did not produce reliable results and people started to have locking issues so Julian removed it. If you're interested in the details it should be in mailing lists archive and also noted in Julian's change log a while back.
<br><br>-- <br>/peter