The process of building sendmail includes
initializing the contents of some associated files. One example is
the statistics file. That file should begin as an empty file. The
build process creates it with a command line such as this:
cp /dev/null statistics
For safety's sake, especially if you changed the
name of the statistics file with the confSTFILE
macro (confSTFILE), you might change the copy
command's invocation to:
define(`confCOPY', `cp -i')
The -i causes cp(1) to prompt
for your OK if the target file already exists.
