[rescue] Starting Postfix (was: Building Sendmail 8.13.1)Z

[Dan Williams]

On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 17:47:46 -0700, Sheldon T. Hall <shel at cmhcsys.com> wrote:
>  Jonathan C. Patschke writes ...
> > On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
> >
> > > So ... I guess it's installed.  It even sends mail out to
> > > the internet.  It
> > > won't send local mail, though, claiming the alias db is unavailable.
> >
> > run newaliases.
> 
> It's deeper than that ... the log entries say ...
> 
> warning: database /etc/aliases.dir is older than source file /etc/aliases
> warning: lookup shel, NIS domain artell.net, map mail.aliases: can't
> communicate with ypbind
> 
> NIS isn't even installed on the machine, so that "failure to communicate"
> isn't surprising.  What is surprising is that it would try.
> 
> This is the result of my trying to mail myself on the local machine, i.e.:
> 
>         echo "test" | mail shel
> 
> Sending mail to my work account from my laptop, through this machine works
> fine, but local mail fails.  I'd expect the opposite.
> 
> -Shel
> 
> 
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Check the alias part of of the main.cf there is an option there to
check nis maps as well.

Dan