topic Re: Getting error message from mailx in Operating System - HP-UX

Getting error message from mailx

Ahmed M. AlShafiy — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 00:49:38 GMT

i have get this message:

The failure message from mailx was:
NIS map mail.aliases specified, but NIS not running: Socket operation on non-socket

Make sure sendmail is set up corectly.

but i'm recivung email from root coz i have forward all the eamils to m email ID and it's working fine.

how can i remove te above error?

Re: Getting error message from mailx

RAC_1 — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 01:14:52 GMT

Looks like you are using nis maps for aliases (check /etc/nsswitch.conf file) and it's not available because you are not using nis.

You need to update nsswitch.conf accordingly.

Re: Getting error message from mailx

Ahmed M. AlShafiy — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 04:46:05 GMT

this the nsswitch.conf file:

aliases: nis [NOTFOUND=continue UNAVAIL=continue] files
automount: nis [NOTFOUND=continue UNAVAIL=continue] files
group: nis [NOTFOUND=continue UNAVAIL=continue] files
hosts: files [NOTFOUND=continue UNAVAIL=continue] dns [NOTFOUND=continue UNAVAIL=continue TRYAGAIN=continue] nis [NOTFOUND=return UNAVAIL=continue TRYAGAIN=return]

what can i chnge on it...?

Re: Getting error message from mailx

Peter Nikitka — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 13:44:43 GMT

Hi,

the question is:
(1) Is NIS not running accidentially OR
(2) do you NOT want to run NIS OR
(3) NIS hasn't been setup it, but you want it to run.

At point 1: (re)-start NIS
At point 2: remove the NIS references in /etc/nsswitch.conf
At point 3: First setup NIS - after that you won't get this error message any longer.

mfG Peter