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sendmail ~~ -DNIS alias.db >>>>
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (root)
Mon Apr 15 07:28:25 1996
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 21:59:49 +1000
From: root <root@linuxbox.nse.com.au>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Reply-To: naderr@topaz.cqu.edu.au
Hi,
beacuse sendmail was not sending my mail
quite so promptly I decided to give the
sendmail sources from berkely a go,
and compiled and installed sendmail-8.7.5
with -DNIS support for NIS stuff ...
(1) something that puzzles me ... how can sendmail
take 2 minutes to deliver a 5 bytes long file?
I'm sure there must be a reason ... I was doing a tcpdump
at the same time on -i sl0 and everything was quite idle,
not telnets, ftp, pop3 or any other kind of activity that
may have set back sendmail from doing its job.
[153][ root@linuxbox: /var/spool/mqueue/
# mailq
Mail Queue (1 request)
--Q-ID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient------------
VAA09998* 5 Mon Apr 15 21:46 root
(db_map_open: cannot pre-open database /etc/aliases.db: No su)
roberto@tecma1
[154][ root@linuxbox: /var/spool/mqueue/
# date
Mon Apr 15 21:48:05 EST 1996
[155][ root@linuxbox: /var/spool/mqueue/
(2) how can I get, in it's most minimal form, a working
/etc/alias.db so that sendmial will not issue me that
warning ... actually so that sendmail will _use_ the
alias.db? .... right now it uses /etc/hosts ( I think )
as I can send mail to hostname aliases I have in there
and they arrive :) I tried sticking an alias.db from
one of the Ultrix boxes at Uni in /etc/ but I think it
didn't like it :)
Any ideas greatly apreciated ....
ps: yes, I know there are fine books on DNS setup
but my uni assignments are dragging me down as it is,
and I have no time at this stage to read them :(
++thanks;
Rob
