topic Re: Sendmail errors with 'unknown member map aliases.dns' in Operating System - HP-UX

Sendmail errors with 'unknown member map aliases.dns'

Bob Kimble — Fri, 26 Oct 2001 22:53:16 GMT

I am a newbie to Unix - we have no experts. We have 2 HP9000 boxes. Sendmail stopped working on one of them and I haven't a clue why. mail.log has many errors like the following: Oct 21 19:56:31 bigdog sendmail[23751]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): Switch map aliases: unknown member map aliases.dns.
When I issue 'echo test | sendmail -v root@localhost', I get 'Switch map aliases: unknown member map aliases.dns' Can someone tell me where to start?

Re: Sendmail errors with 'unknown member map aliases.dns'

Sridhar Bhaskarla — Fri, 26 Oct 2001 23:13:52 GMT

Bob,

Try giving a newaliases as root and see what happens.

-Sri

Re: Sendmail errors with 'unknown member map aliases.dns'

Eugen Cocalea — Sat, 27 Oct 2001 17:00:09 GMT

Hi,

cat /etc/mail/service.switch
or look in your /etc/nsswitch.* file, I think it's an extra . in the configuration file.
It should be something like 'aliases dns' not 'aliases.dns'.

PS: it's only an assumption.

E.