Sendmail ignores NIS aliases

From: Demarthe Hervé <demarthe_at_pegase.cad.cea.fr>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 15:04:13 +0200

Hello !

Context : DU 4.0B
          Sendmail 8.8.5 (not Digital)
          The machine is also our NIS master

Problem :
Sendmail does not expands NIS aliases (in mail.aliases)
sendmail woes : "xxxx... User unknown" when I send mail to a NIS alias

We have majordomo's mailing lists on a machine named "alpha"
and in order to let those lists available throughout or site
I have lines like :

the-real-thing alpha-osf-managers_at_alpha

in /var/yp/src/mail.aliases
so that users have just to know "the-real-thing"

Some more hints :

-It did work formerly (Ultrix NIS master and Ultrix basic sendmail).
-I have checked /etc/svc.conf : aliases : local,yp
-sendmail have been compiled with -DNIS option
-ypcat aliases "works"
-the lists works when targeted from machine "alpha", hence it is
 only a NIS/sendmail problem, majordomo is not to be suspected
-non majordomo related alises fail as well

Any clues ?
TIA,
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