[SunHELP] sendmail + solaris

[David Bishop]

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On Thursday 04 October 2001 07:03 am, Larry Snyder wrote:
> 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.
> -ls-

Any explanation as to why it worked fine with all the previous versions of 
sendmail (all being equal to "all the ones we used")?  And this is being 
rolled out to enough boxen that editing each one's host file isn't trivial....

- -- 
D.A.Bishop
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