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sendmail: unknown member map aliases.aliases

Post by Ruediger Eckhar » Tue, 10 Nov 1998 04:00:00



Since I did the last update of my system by using the recommended
patches, I am getting the following error message on my console:

Nov  9 13:23:31 curacao sendmail[5676]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): Switch
map aliases: unknown member map aliases.aliases

My configuration: The machine that displays this error message is a
Ultra 1 runnning under Solaris 2.5.1.
The NIS+ master is a Sparc 20 under Solaris 2.3. It is the mail host as
well. In addition it works as a DNS stand by machine.
The master DNS runs under Linux 2.1.xxx.

Any idea what's missing in my configuration? Is this a problem with
NIS+? Do I have to set up some NIS group aliases.aliases?

Thanks,
Ruediger
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Tel.: +49 89 722 34197 Fax:  +49 89 722 27431

 
 
 
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sendmail: unknown member map aliases.aliases

Post by Dimitry Aliabie » Tue, 10 Nov 1998 04:00:00


hi


> Since I did the last update of my system by using the recommended
> patches, I am getting the following error message on my console:

> Nov  9 13:23:31 curacao sendmail[5676]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): Switch
> map aliases: unknown member map aliases.aliases

You need check alias db (field AliasFile in sendmail.cf)
Something is wrong - type of the db or it's incorrect value of fields.

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Best rgds,                      Dimitry

Network specialist              http://www.ucl.kiev.ua/~dimitry
Ukrainian Computer Laboratory   nic-hdl: DYA7-RIPE

 
 
 
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sendmail: unknown member map aliases.aliases

Post by Ruediger Eckhar » Wed, 11 Nov 1998 04:00:00



> hi


> > Since I did the last update of my system by using the recommended
> > patches, I am getting the following error message on my console:

> > Nov  9 13:23:31 curacao sendmail[5676]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): Switch
> > map aliases: unknown member map aliases.aliases

> You need check alias db (field AliasFile in sendmail.cf)
> Something is wrong - type of the db or it's incorrect value of fields.

It runs as follows:

# location of alias file
O AliasFile=/etc/mail/aliases

This file is a plain text file and contains the aliases:
-------------------------------------
# Following alias is required by the mail protocol, RFC 822
# Set it to the address of a HUMAN who deals with this system's mail
problems.
Postmaster: eckhard

# Alias for mailer daemon; returned messages from our MAILER-DAEMON
# should be routed to our local Postmaster.
MAILER-DAEMON: postmaster

# Aliases to handle mail to programs or files, eg news or vacation
# decode: "|/usr/bin/uudecode"
nobody: /dev/null
------------------------------------

and no further definitions (besides some comments)

There are also files /etc/mail/aliases.dir (0 bytes) and
/etc/mail/aliases.pag (1024 bytes).
I tried to remove these. They were recreated after restarting sendmail,
as I did expect.

Ruediger

 
 
 
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sendmail: unknown member map aliases.aliases

Post by Birger Blix » Wed, 11 Nov 1998 04:00:00




> > hi


> > > Since I did the last update of my system by using the recommended
> > > patches, I am getting the following error message on my console:

> > > Nov  9 13:23:31 curacao sendmail[5676]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): Switch
> > > map aliases: unknown member map aliases.aliases

> > You need check alias db (field AliasFile in sendmail.cf)
> > Something is wrong - type of the db or it's incorrect value of fields.
> It runs as follows:

> # location of alias file
> O AliasFile=/etc/mail/aliases

> This file is a plain text file and contains the aliases:
> -------------------------------------
> # Following alias is required by the mail protocol, RFC 822
> # Set it to the address of a HUMAN who deals with this system's mail
> problems.
> Postmaster: eckhard

> # Alias for mailer daemon; returned messages from our MAILER-DAEMON
> # should be routed to our local Postmaster.
> MAILER-DAEMON: postmaster

> # Aliases to handle mail to programs or files, eg news or vacation
> # decode: "|/usr/bin/uudecode"
> nobody: /dev/null
> ------------------------------------

> and no further definitions (besides some comments)

> There are also files /etc/mail/aliases.dir (0 bytes) and
> /etc/mail/aliases.pag (1024 bytes).
> I tried to remove these. They were recreated after restarting sendmail,
> as I did expect.

> Ruediger

Run newaliases , to rebuild aliases.pag
/BB
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Error #152 - Windows not found: (C)heer (P)arty (D)ance
 
 
 
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1. Switch map aliases: unknown member map aliases.dns

Hi newsgroup,

SunOS 7 (or Solaris 2.7)

I'm trying to do the following with my STMP mailer:

telnet server 25

ESMTP 8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1;

HELO server
--answers Hello
MAIL from: john
--Gives error:
554 Switch map aliases: unknown member map aliases.dns

also tried:

and also

and also
\john
and

Note that all of the above values will work with simple /usr/ucb/mail.

I cannot get past this error with the from statement.  I'm not using
dns for email, only locally, my nsswitch.conf file is set for some dns
configuration so that I can reach the internet. I want to keep my
email local and not part of the network, but I need to use this SMPT
directly for testing. If it was going through /usr/ucb/Mail there does
not seem to be a problem (but I don't how Mail is setting the from
statement).

Here is the homegrown nsswitch.conf I have:

# -======================-
# 03/01/1999 - McKnight
# Created nsswitch.dns file to try to get name server switch working
# properly. The nt server at bvew uses dns.
# -======================-
# /etc/nsswitch.dns:
#
# An example file that could be copied over to /etc/nsswitch.conf; it
# uses NIS (YP) in conjunction with files.
#
# "hosts:" and "services:" in this file are used only if the
# /etc/netconfig file has a "-" for nametoaddr_libs of "inet"
transports.

# the following two lines obviate the "+" entry in /etc/passwd and
/etc/group.
passwd:     files   #dns screws things up here.
group:      files   #and probably here too.

# consult /etc "files" only if nis is down.
hosts:      dns [NOTFOUND=return] files
networks:   dns [NOTFOUND=return] files
protocols:  dns [NOTFOUND=return] files
rpc:        dns [NOTFOUND=return] files
ethers:     dns [NOTFOUND=return] files

netmasks:   dns [NOTFOUND=return] files
bootparams: dns [NOTFOUND=return] files
publickey:  dns [NOTFOUND=return] files

netgroup:   dns

automount:  files dns
aliases:    files

# for efficient getservbyname() avoid nis
services:   files dns
sendmailvars:   files

All help would be appreciated!

Thanks,
J. McKnight

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