On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Ray Bowen wrote:
> i have a newly patched sun with the y2k patches. /etc/mail/aliases has
> no majordomo
> info and majordomo was working before the patches. since i have all the
> majordomo
> files in /usr/local/majordomo, can i make some additions to
> /etc/mail/aliases to get
> majordomo working again?
>
I have no idea what the sun Y2K patches entailed on your machine, but
I'm guessing that it replaced sendmail, and returned your sendmail.cf to a
default state.
How did you install majordomo in the first place? Did you take the
option to place the major's aliases in your main /etc/mail/aliases file?
Or did you create a separate file for them, and take the option of telling
sendmail to search multiple alias files?
I find it hard to believe that any vendor would callously overwrite
something as installation-dependent as /etc/mail/aliases without warning
you, so I'm guessing that you took option two, and you'll find another
file (hopefully in the same directory) called majordomo.aliases or
something, and the major's aliases would be in there. If so, simply edit
sendmail.cf to declare this alternate alias file, restart sendmail, and
the major should wake up.
If you took the first option, and Sun was callous enough to overwrite your
local aliases with its defaults, then I would suggest restoring a backup
copy of your aliases file from before the upgrade to a second name,
stripping it to just the major's stuff, and telling sendmail where to find
it.
--
Rick Green
Please note my new address: <rtg@mich.com>
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