Well, I finally have a solution:
>I had a similar problem once. It was caused by using a newer version
>of sendmail than the one supplied by sun. I fixed it by changing all
>occurances of sendmail to sendmail.orig.
>
>It appears that the aliases map is built up using special flags to
>sendmail.
>
>--
>Paul Lindner | lindner@boombox.micro.umn.edu
>
what I didn't mention in my original post is that I'm using Berkeley's
5.65 sendmail. apparently Sun's sendmail does something 'special' to
the database files that get made by NIS. changing the Makefile to use
Sun's version seems to work just great. Thanks to all who tried to help:
Leonard E. Sitongia sitongia@ncar.ucar.edu
Philip Hammar Internet: jackal@keps.kodak.com
Pamela Hanes phanes@hal.com
Dale W. Lewis radian!dalel@natinst.com
Barry N. Nelson barryn@world.std.com
Krishna Veeraghanta krishnav@pilot.njin.net
Scott W. Borow swb6324@eerpf001.ca.boeing.com
and an extra big thanks to Paul!
-- Ned Danieley (ndd@sunbar.mc.duke.edu) Basic Arrhythmia Laboratory Box 3140, Duke University Medical Center Durham, NC 27710 (919) 660-5111 or 660-5100
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