[SunHELP] sendmail + solaris

[Larry Snyder]

David Bishop <tech at bishop.dhs.org> wrote:
> 
> 1)  We don't use dns, just nis.  All lookups go through nis, if they aren't
> local then the master server looks it up via dns and returns it via nis.
> However, sendmail doesn't want to follow the rules setup in nsswitch.conf,
> and complains about not being able to lookup the fqdn of the host it's
> running on.  How do I tell it to either not care or look it up via nis (which
> it was doing previously, apparently, because we didn't have this problem).

I can help on the first, I think:
Add the machine's fqdn to its hostname as an alias in the local hosts
file.

Not sure on the 2nd.
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