On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Dave Atkins wrote:
> majordomo version 1.94.4
> sendmail 8.8.7
> linux 2.0.36/RedHat 5.2
> perl 5.005_02
>
> I have installed majordomo and it appears to work, but only locally. For
> /snip/
> I am trying to use a separate majordomo.aliases file and it does not appear
> that this alias database is being consulted for incoming email...i.e. none
> of the aliases works unless I send email while telneted in to the server.
> /snip/
> Any ideas?
>
It's my understanding that a local user sending mail will cause a new
sendmail process to be spawned, while outside mail is accepted by the
running daemon process. Have you killed and re-started the daemon process
since you updated sendmail.cf to include the reference to
majordomo.aliases?
This might explain why a remote user wouldn't see the aliases defined in
the majordomo.aliases file. Running `newaliases` will only build a .db
with the aliases it knows about. It doesn't force the running process to
re-read sendmail.cf, so it will only re-build the aliases in the files it
already knew about. `kill -HUP` won't do it either. You have to stop and
re-start it.
--
Rick Green
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Microsoft has just announced it is renaming Windows NT version 5 to
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