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sob@bcm.tmc.edu (Stan Barber) writes: [In the README file in the kit]

> 9. If you care about Yellow Pages Support, you will need to keep the
> old version of sendmail around on the Yellow Pages master to correctly
> rebuild the mail.aliases file so that the mail.byaddr database will 
> be rebuilt correctly. You will need to edit /var/yp/Makefile and change
> the reference to /usr/lib/sendmail to /usr/lib/sendmail.old. This is
> only necessary on the Yellow Pages Master. If anyone can tell me how
> to get makedbm to do this, please do. I have not found out how yet. It
> builds a mail.aliases database just fine, but the mail.byaddr will not
> build correctly.

I had similar trouble with 5.61/IDA on SunOS, using YP aliases. The thing
is, the YP maps have to have some entries a la' YPMASTER and
YP_LAST_MODIFIED, otherwise you can't push them. The trick is to pass the
map via makedbm, which by default add these records. I modified the
yp-makefile to pass the sendmail generated aliases via makedbm -u |
makedbm -, that is, undump the alias dbm file and have makdbm generate it
properly. Here are the associated lines from the makefile:

aliases.time: $(ALIASES)
	-@if [ -f $(ALIASES) ]; then \
	  cp $(ALIASES) $(YPDBDIR)/$(DOM)/temp.mail.aliases; \
	  /usr/lib/sendmail -bi -oA$(YPDBDIR)/$(DOM)/temp.mail.aliases; \
	  $(MAKEDBM) -u $(YPDBDIR)/$(DOM)/temp.mail.aliases | \
			$(MAKEDBM) - $(YPDBDIR)/$(DOM)/mail.aliases; \
	  $(MKALIAS) $(YPDBDIR)/$(DOM)/mail.aliases \
		     $(YPDBDIR)/$(DOM)/mail.byaddr; \
	  rm $(YPDBDIR)/$(DOM)/temp.mail.aliases* ; \
	...rest unchanged...

Hope this really was the problem. Anycase it should help those trying to
use 5.61/IDA with YP aliases.

---Lars

Lars Povlsen,
Institute of Datalogy, University of Copenhagen
E-mail: krus@diku.dk / ...!mcvax!dkuug!diku!krus