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From: samborn@sunrise.com (Kevin Samborn)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Smail 3.1.20 & SunOS 4.1.1 Rev B. & Yellow Pages
Keywords: Yellow Pages, core dumps, messages hanging around
Message-ID: <SAMBORN.91May21101008@astro.sunrise.com>
Date: 21 May 91 15:10:08 GMT
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We have just upgraded our SPARCstation 1 to SunOS 4.1.1 Rev B. from 4.0.3.

On the old OS we ran Smail 3.1.19.  So, as part of the upgrade, we
went to 3.1.20.  I have a couple of questions:

a) We periodically get core dumps.  This is the msglog entry:

     Xdefer: <<uunet!twiggy.prime.com!rcassidy>> reason: (ERR_127) router
     uucp_neighors: command `/usr/bin/uuname' returned exit status
     EX_53248

   Is this a problem with SunOS 4.1.1 Rev B. ??
   
b) left over messages in /usr/spool/smail/input

   We now occasionally have messages hanging around in
   /usr/spool/smail/input.  There are msglog entries, but why are they
   still there?  They seem to hang around after an

     Xfail: <info> reason: (ERR_100) unknown user

   message.  They do seem to get bounced however.  Why do they hang
   around in input? 

c) NIS (Yellow Pages) & aliases

   As part of our change of OS, we decided to use Yellow Pages.  The
   yellow pages works fine.  However the upgrading mechanism causes us
   trouble.  It seems that Sun uses the following command to update
   the aliases database:

      /usr/lib/sendmail -bi -oA$(YPDBDIR)/$(DOM)/mail.aliases;

   Smail does not support the -bi option.  What it is doing,
   (according to the man page) is:

      -bi Initialize the aliases database.

      It also says this is identical to the newaliases(8) command.

   I have tracked this a little bit, and it appears that there needs
   to be an extra key/value pair of "@/@" in the database.  You cannot
   use Smail's dbm generating stuff because it does not include the YP
   information.  Apparently Sun's sendmail knows about YP.  I tried
   the following stuff, but although it produced the same exact YP map
   that the Sun sendmail command did, Smail did not find the alias:

      /bin/echo "@:@" >> $(YPDBDIR)/$(DOM)/mail.aliases
      /usr/local/bin/smail/mkline $(YPDBDIR)/$(DOM)/mail.aliases | \
         awk 'BEGIN { FS = ":"; OFS = "\t";} { print $$1, $$2 }' | \
         $(MAKEDBM) -l - $(YPDBDIR)/$(DOM)/mail.aliases

      $(MAKEDBM) is the command for creating YP suitable dbm maps.

   Needless to say, I cannot use the Smail newaliases command because
   it doesn't do anything if running YP.

Thanks for all your help!

kevin samborn
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