On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 08:10 -0700, Brian D. McGrew wrote: > I posed about this once before and never saw a response; hopefully > someone knows :-) > > I'm using NIS and sendmail is fine on all my Solaris boxes but on Linux > it doesn't seem to want to consult my NIS alias file. On Solaris if I > 'mail brian', it gets redirected to my alias; but on Linux if I 'mail > brian' it gets delivered locally. > > What am I missing? What do I need to do to make sendmail consult the > NIS alias files??? > > Thanks > In you /etc/nsswitch.conf fille do you have abn aliasses entry to tell the system to consult the nis version of the file. > -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>