Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 10:17:07 -0700 From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIS and sendmail aliases? Message-ID: <19981020101707.02735@orbit.flnet.com> In-Reply-To: <199810201655.JAA29048@pau-amma.whistle.com>; from David Wolfskill on Tue, Oct 20, 1998 at 09:55:59AM -0700 References: <19981019001420.39648@orbit.flnet.com> <199810201655.JAA29048@pau-amma.whistle.com>
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On the subject of Re: NIS and sendmail aliases?, David Wolfskill stated:
> I confess that I'm puzzled by a desire to use NIS for this purpose.
>
> Do you really have several (well, more than one) host that needs to know how
> the aliases expand? (As opposed to sending all the mail to a central
> mailhost that handles the expansion, then sends things out as appropriate,
> for example.)
Its a hack to avoid having to deal with getting a proper sendmail up and
running on all the different flavors of IRIX :)
> I also confess that I tend to avoid using NIS... unless I have a situation
Same here, Generally I avoid NIS like the plague. However, it does do its job
fairly well when it comes to distrubition of password data as well as
automounter maps.
> see how DBMDEF is defined. If you really want to use NIS for aliases,
> "DBMDEF" needs to include "-DNIS", I believe.
I'll do so.
-Crh
Charles Henrich Manex Visual Effects henrich@flnet.com
http://orbit.flnet.com/~henrich
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