Sendmail and YP aliases

[John Haxby]

In article <27DFCCCD.23236 at orion.oac.uci.edu>, iglesias at draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias) writes:
|> Does anyone know what magic is required to get sendmail (Ultrix 4.1) to
|> use YP-distributed aliases?

You need to edit /etc/svc.conf to change

	aliases=local

to 

	aliases=local,yp

and you'll probably need to refreeze and restart sendmail.
You might have problems with YP aliases; there are some
funnies in there, if you do, hesiod alias distribution is
rather better.
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