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From: jch@hollie.rdg.dec.com (John Haxby)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Sendmail and YP aliases
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.104257.12678@hollie.rdg.dec.com>
Date: 15 Mar 91 10:42:57 GMT
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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.
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