Xref: alice comp.databases.oracle.misc:40636 comp.databases.oracle.server:65106 Path: alice!news-feed.fnsi.net!enews.sgi.com!paloalto-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!inet16.us.oracle.com!not-for-mail From: Thomas Kyte Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.misc,comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Any proof: Sendmail crashes Oracle or vice versa???? Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 07:50:52 -0400 Organization: Oracle Service Industries Lines: 37 Message-ID: <4Z7XN6xDoT49Vju+KS+Gwm58kgeI@4ax.com> References: Reply-To: tkyte@us.oracle.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: inet16.us.oracle.com 936877802 16444 138.1.114.204 (9 Sep 1999 11:50:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@inet16.us.oracle.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 Sep 1999 11:50:02 GMT X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.6/32.525 A copy of this was sent to "Tom Williamson" (if that email address didn't require changing) On Wed, 08 Sep 1999 22:07:17 GMT, you wrote: >Does anyone out there have any information regarding Sendmail crashing >Oracle 8.0.5, or Oracle crashing Sendmail? > >I think we have a configuration problem that is keeping Sendmail from >working. > >Someone else in our organization thinks that Oracle and Sendmail don't work >together - this person told me that long ago, they turned on Sendmail and it >"crashed Oracle" so now that Sendmail isn't working, we should just abandon >it altogether. (I realize this makes no sense.) I just want to make sure >I'm on solid ground before I go back and tell this other person that our >machine is configured incorrectly and Sendmail itself is not the problem. > >Thanks - Tom > > > > > they are very wrong. the 2 applications are totally separate and distinct. virtually every unix machine i have ever worked on has both sendmail and oracle running -- successfully. -- See http://govt.us.oracle.com/~tkyte/ for my columns 'Digging-in to Oracle8i'... Current article is "Part I of V, Autonomous Transactions" updated June 21'st Thomas Kyte tkyte@us.oracle.com Oracle Service Industries Reston, VA USA Opinions are mine and do not necessarily reflect those of Oracle Corporation