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To: Rich Winkel <rich@chumbly.math.missouri.edu>
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Subject: Re: Sendmail won't use NIS aliases 
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From: Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU>
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>I'm running 3.3-stable and I can't get sendmail to use nis aliases.
>/etc/service.switch:
>hosts	files nis dns
>aliases	files nis
>
>What else do I need to do??

In /etc/sendmail.cf change:

  O AliasFile=/etc/aliases

to:

  O AliasFile=nis:mail.aliases,/etc/aliases

(and of course kill and restart sendmail daemon)


-Mitch



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