iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias) (03/15/91)
Does anyone know what magic is required to get sendmail (Ultrix 4.1) to use YP-distributed aliases? I've built a YP mail.aliases file, ypmatch can match the key in the mail.aliases database, but sendmail won't use it. I've RTFM - the aliases(5) man page refers to the "Guide to Yellow Pages Service", but there's nothing that I can find in that FM that refers to YP-distributed aliases. The YP master is a DECstation 5000, the clients are other DECstations 5000s (all running Ultrix 4.1) and Suns of various flavors running Sunos 4.0.3 or 4.1.1. Thanks, Mike Iglesias University of California, Irvine Internet: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu BITNET: iglesias@uci uucp: ...!ucbvax!ucivax!iglesias
jch@hollie.rdg.dec.com (John Haxby) (03/15/91)
In article <27DFCCCD.23236@orion.oac.uci.edu>, iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias) writes: |> Does anyone know what magic is required to get sendmail (Ultrix 4.1) to |> use YP-distributed aliases? You need to edit /etc/svc.conf to change aliases=local to aliases=local,yp and you'll probably need to refreeze and restart sendmail. You might have problems with YP aliases; there are some funnies in there, if you do, hesiod alias distribution is rather better. -- John Haxby, Definitively Wrong. Digital <jch@wessex.rdg.dec.com> Reading, England <...!ukc!wessex!jch>
jbryans@beach.csulb.edu (Jack Bryans) (03/17/91)
Does anyone have a script to produce a mail.aliases file from an aliases file. They're quite different. Ultrix 4.1, if it matters; yes, we have perl. Jack
jch@hollie.rdg.dec.com (John Haxby) (03/18/91)
I thought about it, but this is pretty short:
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#include <ndbm.h>
main () {
DBM *db = dbm_open ("/usr/lib/aliases", 0, 0);
datum key, val;
for (key = dbm_firstkey(db); key.dptr; key = dbm_nextkey(db)) {
val = dbm_fetch (db, key);
printf ("%.*s\t%.*s\n", key.dsize, key.dptr,
val.dsize, val.dptr);
}
}
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you'll have to compile it I'm afraid :-)
--
John Haxby, Definitively Wrong.
Digital <jch@wessex.rdg.dec.com>
Reading, England <...!ukc!wessex!jch>