[comp.mail.sendmail] Would like an m4 example of NIS in 5.6x w/IDA

newsgst@sequoia.execu.com (Net News) (12/29/90)

     I'm trying to get sendmail with IDA up and running on a system that
     has NIS but is not Internet.  Currently I am running a BSD4.3 variant
     on a Sequent Symmetry with sendmail 5.65 and IDA 1.4.2.  Mind you that
     all of this is being done in my own directories so as not to screw up
     what works since I am having awful luck.

     We use NIS stuff heavily and are not Internet.  I'm not a sysadmin
     so I'm not all wise and find extracting all the Internet related stuff
     out of the docs a bit confusing.  We rely mostly on UUCP to do the mail
     off-site, ether for local and also use SMTP.  Uh, also sdbm.

     So if someone has their m4 sendmail.cf configuration working with
     NIS I'd like to see it.  I don't know what to do with the aliases, since
     some of the examples have mail.aliases defined as the ALIASES, and I
     don't know why. 

     I am still confused on some basic stuff, so if I sound off the wall it's
     just because I don't know what I am talking about.  Please try to
     muddle through :)  

     email replies appreciated, i'll try to summarize, if it seems relevant
     on a more general scale.

     j
     newsgst@execu.com
     ^--yeah, this is my job on volunteer time