Re: Problems with mkaliases
System Account <listinfo@timberwolf.provision.net> writes:
> hi there. i have upgraded to debian 1.2. i also upgraded my smail to
> smail_3.2-3.deb. since then i have not been able to exec /usr/sbin/mkaliases.
> it tells me:
> /usr/sbin/mkaliases: unknown file type, , for /etc/aliases
>
> the mode for /etc/aliases is -rw-r--r--
> any ideas??
smail supports several different types of alias lookups. You have to
edit the line that says ALIASES_TYPE='' in mkaliases to put in the
type you want to use. That has to match what's in the aliases
director in /etc/smail/directors. Ideally, mkaliases would read
directors to figure out the type in use. I filed a bug report that it
should at least print out a better error message until that's
implemented.
Anyway, the default type is `lsearch' (linear search). In that mode,
mkaliases does nothing more than a consistency check on your
/etc/aliases file. There are much more efficient types which you
might want to use if you have a lot of aliases and process a lot of
email, namely bsearch (binary search) and dbm.
If you didn't understand any of that :), just edit the mkaliases file
so it says ALIASES_TYPE='lsearch', and you'll be ok.
Guy
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