And verily didst Anders Nattestad spake of these matters:
>
> Hello all,
>
> Sorry to bother the list with this kind of question, but I have tried
> allmost everthing else.
>
> I have compiled and installed majordomo 1.92 on a Linux and
> everything seems to be in place. I have placed the aliases in
> /etc/aliases as suggested. However the user majordomo is unknown to
> the system when mailing. So I tried to insert a dummy user with mail
> forwarding in the aliases file : dummy: root. This should make mail
> to dummy go to root instead. The user dummy is unkonown.
>
> The problem is with smail (Linux derivative of sendmail), which
> apparently does not read the aliases file. I looked in the smail
> documentation and found somewhere a config command : -oA alias-file,
> which I inserted into the smail configuration file. This had the
> effect that no mail at all comes through, not even to regular users.
> The -oA command must mess up the config of smail. But how then do I
> tell smail to use the /etc/aliases file ???
>
> I have looked in all the possible faq and how-to's without luck.
The quick answer: the file is /usr/lib/aliases
It's not in the /etc directory.
(The long answer: RTFM. The SMail docs come in the doc disk sets of all
the Linux distributions I've seen. If you can't find it, look on
ftp.uu.net for the full SMail package.)
- Alan
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Alan Millar E-Mail: amillar@bolis.SF-Bay.org
System Administrator Web: ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/amillar/welcome.html
What part of "NO" don't you understand?
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