mrl@uai.com (Mark R. Ludwig) (05/23/91)
[Please note cross-posting and followup, as I believe this is a problem unique to SMI incarnations of sendmail.] Configuration: Sun-4/260 SunOS 4.1[.0?] Vanilla sendmail (not .mx) Modified sendmail.main I have been unable to get sendmail to honor the NIS aliases. NIS is working fine, in general (ypcat, et al.). These same aliases *are* working on Ultrix. In the CF, I see /etc/aliases referenced explicitely. I also see a reference to mail.aliases in the ddn mailer having to do with reversing the aliases; our mail never uses the ddn mailer, so I assume this does not affect me. I see no other reference to the NIS aliases. I would *gladly* RTFM. I don't have a current one. As I recall, this problem existed back when my manual was current, and I was unable to find anything which enabled the then-YP aliases. I have not seen any change with SunOS4. I would greatly appreciate it if some kind soul would clue me in to whatever incantation I need to install in order to get this to work. I am relatively fluent with the CF, so don't be afraid to get technical. My changes to the CF have been to send all mail not recognized as being destined for a host in our domain out via UUCP to a mail relay.$$ -- INET: mrl@uai.com UUCP: uunet!uaisun4!mrl PSTN: +1 213 822 4422 USPS: 7740 West Manchester Boulevard, Suite 208, Playa del Rey, CA 90293 WANT: Succinct, insightful statement to occupy this space. Inquire within.
rd@zildjian.chorus.fr (Roland Dirlewanger) (05/23/91)
In article <1991May22.220010.7695@uai.com>, mrl@uai.com (Mark R. Ludwig) writes:
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%% Configuration:
%%
%% Sun-4/260
%% SunOS 4.1[.0?]
%% Vanilla sendmail (not .mx)
%% Modified sendmail.main
%%
%% I have been unable to get sendmail to honor the NIS aliases. NIS is
%% working fine, in general (ypcat, et al.). These same aliases *are*
%% working on Ultrix.
There's a feature(?) introduced in SunOS 4.1's sendmail: aliasing is
always turned off if the mail spool directory (/var/spool/mail) is
NFS mounted, no matter if the aliases are handled by NIS or not.
May be that's the problem. Unfortunately, I see no simple way to fix it.
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F-78182 St Quentin en Yvelines Cedexmrl@uai.com (Mark R. Ludwig) (05/24/91)
In article <10797@chorus.fr>, rd@zildjian (Roland Dirlewanger) writes: >In article <1991May22.220010.7695@uai.com>, I wrote: >%% I have been unable to get sendmail to honor the NIS aliases. NIS is >%% working fine, in general (ypcat, et al.). These same aliases *are* >%% working on Ultrix. > >There's a feature(?) introduced in SunOS 4.1's sendmail: aliasing is >always turned off if the mail spool directory (/var/spool/mail) is >NFS mounted, no matter if the aliases are handled by NIS or not. No, sendmail is not playing with NFS. However, you've indirectly answered a question I hadn't yet posed to the net about putting the mail spool on an NFS partition. In thinking about it, avoiding aliases in such an environment is *probably* the correct thing to do.$$ -- INET: mrl@uai.com UUCP: uunet!uaisun4!mrl PSTN: +1 213 822 4422 USPS: 7740 West Manchester Boulevard, Suite 208, Playa del Rey, CA 90293 WANT: Succinct, insightful statement to occupy this space. Inquire within.