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From: jmc@cnd.hp.com (Jerry McCollom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: mail problem on 9000/350's
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Date: 5 Feb 91 20:22:48 GMT
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In article <jwright.665783343@quonset> jwright@cfht.hawaii.edu (Jim Wright) writes:
> Try "praliases".  HP's sendmail has some serious bugs when YP is running.
> If praliases doesn't give the results you expect (for me, it simply showed
> no known aliases) then this is the problem.
> 
> Below is an excerpt from our /etc/netbsdsrc file showing the kludge to
> work around this bug.  There are a bunch of places in this file where
> the fix is needed, and you must fix this for every machine on your network.
> 
>     YPNAME=`/bin/domainname`
>     /bin/domainname ""
>     /usr/lib/sendmail -bz
>     /bin/domainname "$YPNAME"
>     /usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q30m && /bin/echo "sendmail  \c"

This YP problem has been fixed.  Get the latest sendmail patch from your
SE and you'll no longer need this kludge.

Jerry McCollom
jmc@cnd.hp.com