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- From: k2@bl.physik.tu-muenchen.de (Klaus Steinberger)
- Subject: Re: Sendmail and NIS on RISC OS
- Message-ID: <k2.716112349@woodstock>
- Sender: news@news.lrz-muenchen.de (Mr. News)
- Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
- References: <1992Sep4.145517.1@idicl1.idi.battelle.org> <1992Sep9.133702.19696@odin.corp.sgi.com> <lgy.716088268@landau>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 08:05:49 GMT
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- lgy@landau.phys.washington.edu (Laurence Yaffe) writes:
-
- >trevc@sal.reading.sgi.com (Trevor Cotton) writes:
-
- >>In article <1992Sep4.145517.1@idicl1.idi.battelle.org>, hamparian@idicl1.idi.battelle.org writes:
- >>|> Hello, I am running Risc/os 4.52. Sendmail says it is version 5.61. I am
- >>|> trying to get sendmail to understand
- >>|> the NIS aliases map. There doesn't seem to be a way of doing this. Is it
- >>|> just possible that this version of Risc/os doesn't support that?
-
- > Regrettably, there is no way (with any of the versions of sendmail in 4.52)
- >to use a nameserver for host name lookup and NIS for mail aliases.
- >/usr/lib/sendmail.nis is entirely useless if you demand DNS name service, and
- >/usr/lib/sendmail.named will not use NIS for mail aliases regardless
- >of what's in your /etc/vis.conf file. (This is the biggest hole I've
- >noticed in the otherwise very nice /etc/vis.conf setup.)
-
- > To cope with the perfectly sensible desire for centralized mail aliases
- >together with DNS name service, we have entirely switched to a slightly
- >modified version of sendmail which can use MB (mailbox) records in a DNS
- >pseudo-domain as the source for mail aliases. This version of sendmail
- >is available from ftphost.cac.washington.edu. Building was no problem
- >under RISCos-4.52 (or SunOS or Ultrix). This use of MB records is
- >described as experimental, but we've been very pleased with how it all
- >works.
-
- Another way is to port IDA sendmail to RISCos. I've done it on EP/IX
- (CDC enhanced version of RISCos), and its straightforward.
- Just use systype bsd43. (There is an example CFLAGS for RISCos in the Makefile).
-
- IDA sendmail is able to use DNS name service, and NIS maps. Besides
- that, its configuration is much more simple and enhanced than plain sendmail.
-
- Sincerely,
- Klaus Steinberger
-
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