newaliases

From: Murat Balci <balci_at_baum01.ege.edu.tr>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 22:43:46 +0300 (EET)

Hi,
My original question was ;

I want to form a immaginary discussion-list locally using alias function
of sendmail. I added the following line to /var/adm/sendmail/aliases

usg:surgev, tufan, serkan, pinar // etc ..

then typed newaliases and get ;

/usr/adm/sendmail/aliases: line 20: MAILER-DAEMON: root... cannot
resolve name
/usr/adm/sendmail/aliases: line 20: illegal alias name
/usr/adm/sendmail/aliases: line 23: postmaster:balci... cannot resolve name
/usr/adm/sendmail/aliases: line 23: illegal alias name
/usr/adm/sendmail/aliases: line 24: usg:surgev, tufan, serkan, pinar,
cannot resolve name
/usr/adm/sendmail/aliases: line 24: illegal alias name
/usr/adm/sendmail/aliases: line 27: nobody: /dev/null... cannot resolve name
/usr/adm/sendmail/aliases: line 27: illegal alias name
0 aliases, longest () 0 bytes, 0 bytes total


        I use sendmail-8.6.2 ( I have compiled 8.7.1 but I'dont have any
time to upgarde to it ) . Do you have any idea about that ??
Sincerely.
murat.

thanx to ;

Patrick O'Brien <pobrien_at_draco.harvard.edu>
Jim Belonis <belonis_at_dirac.phys.washington.edu>
Jack Burton <jackb_at_sparcjan.picker.com>
Paul Gosse <paulg_at_charon.ucs.mun.ca>

The reason why I get this strange behaviour is that the newaliases
we were using were /usr/sbin/newaliases and this was DEC's original
newaliases program, but this is not valid for sendmail-8.6.2 When I soft
linked /usr/sbin/sendmail to newaliases i solved the problem.
Thanx for all.
Sincerely.
murat.


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