Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!ztivax!has
From: has@ztivax.UUCP (Hans-Albert Schneider)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: some uucp and sendmail questions
Message-ID: <480@ztivax.UUCP>
Date: 9 Sep 88 11:53:14 GMT
Reply-To: has@ztivax.UUCP (Hans-Albert Schneider)
Organization: Siemens AG in Munich, W-Germany
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Hello, there!

    We have here two SUN 3/60 (running SunOS 3.5) and 5 APOLLO DN4000
(2 diskless, 3 disked, running AEGIS sr9.7 and DOMAIN/IX 9.5).
    The APOLLOs are connected via token ring, and one of them functions
as a gateway to the local ethernet to which the SUNs are connected, too.
None of the SUNs has a printer, but one of the APOLLOs has.

1)    Now we would like to use this printer with the SUNs, too. The simplest
solution would be to configure the default printer of the SUNs, lp, to
be a remote printer on the APOLLO and let the rest to BSD4.2 lpd.
Unfortunately - due to the way lpd authenticates remote clients -
this requires that everybody who wants to print something from a SUN
has an account on the APOLLOs, too.
Because this is not the case, this possibility is out of question.

    The next idea was to have the machines run uucp via the ethernet
(which would be System V uucp on the APOLLO), but I do not know how to
configure this.

    Can anybody please give me some advice?
    Are there any other solutions?

2)    My second problem concerns sendmail.
I am unable to create the global aliases database for sendmail.
Whenever I call "newaliases" (which is a soft link to sendmail on our
machines) or "sendmail -bi", the command terminates silently.
When I take a look to /usr/lib/aliases.*, these files are empty.
If they did not exist before, they do not exist afterwards.

    Here is what ls tells about the files:
	% ls -lg ali* sen*
	-rw-rw-rw-  1 root     bin           308 Jul 26 16:11 aliases
	-rwxrwxrwx  1 root     bin             0 Jul 22 12:16 aliases.dir
	-rwxrwxrwx  1 root     bin             0 Jul 22 12:16 aliases.pag
	-rwxr-xr-x  1 root     staff      111960 Jul 22 11:12 sendmail
	-rwxr-xr-x  1 root     inf21       17867 Jul 26 16:23 sendmail.cf
	-rwxr-xr-x  1 root     staff           0 Jul 22 11:12 sendmail.fc
	-rwxr-xr-x  1 root     staff        1520 Jul 22 11:12 sendmail.hf
	-rwxr-xr-x  1 root     staff         406 Sep  7 09:41 sendmail.st

Am I missing something? What is the exact format of file aliases (spaces,
commas, single/double/no quotes around file names, :include:, ...)?

	Hans-Albert Schneider