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From: paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO)
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Subject: Re: YP aliases on VAX & SUN
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Date: 16 Sep 90 00:33:05 GMT
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neitzel@infbs.uucp (Martin Neitzel) writes:

>I have no success with YP aliases on an Ethernet with both a VAX and a
>SUN.  The YP mail aliases are defined on the VAX (running Ultrix), and
>"ypcat aliases" works fine on the Sun.  The Sun runs the standard
>sendmail from its 4.0.3 OS.
>
>According to the docs it should look up aliases first in/etc/aliases
>and then in the YP.  However, the Sun doesn't recognize any of the YP
>aliases.
>
>* Any hints?

If you're using 5.64+IDA from UIUC, then you'll need to use both
define(ALIASES, /etc/aliases)
define(NIS_MAILALIASES)

/pbp
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