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From: fouts@teehee.dallas.sgi.com (Christopher L. Fouts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Elm2.3 Patch 11 Problem
Message-ID: <1991May2.231726.26642@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 2 May 91 23:17:26 GMT
References: <9104231741.AA20550@rainbow>
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In article <9104231741.AA20550@rainbow>, marc@rainbow.mitre.org (Marc Friedman) writes:
|> 
|> 	I've just installed Patch Level 11 to my elm2.3 and am 
|> having an odd problem.  For some strange reason, elm no longer
|> looks at my aliases I've set-up.  Consequently, mailing to an
|> alias yields returned mail with the error message saying unknown
|> user.
|> 
|> 	Update Procedure:
|> 
|> 		cd /usr/local/lib/elm2.3
|> 		patch -p -N < patch10
|> 		patch -p -N < patch11
|> 		make
|> 		make install
|> 		
|> 	Does anyone know how to make this work??  I was previously
|> using Patch 9 and everything was working well.
|> 
|> Thank you very much in advance.
|> 
|> -- 
|> *  Marc Friedman 
|> *  The Mitre Corporation    
|> *  7525 Colshire Drive     
|> *  McLean, VA  22102      
|> *  M/S W291              
|> *  Bus. #: (703) 883-5247
|> *  Fax. #: (703) 883-6478
|> *  E-mail: marc@mitre.org   
|> *********************************************************************

If you're getting your alias feed through NIS (formerly YP), make sure you
link with -lsun.  Otherwise, elm will only look at your local aliases (and
password entries, etc.).

-- 
Chris Fouts				email: fouts@dallas.sgi.com
Systems Engineer			vmail: 8714
SGI - Dallas				phone: 214-788-4122

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