error message in mail.log

[Jonathan Grymes]

proeai02 sm-mta[20631]: m8UCU0ls020630: SYSERR(root) Switch map aliases: unknown member map aliases.dns

Does anyone know whats causing this error?

sendmail 8.13.1
HPUX 11.23

My service.switch contains:
hosts dns files
aliases files

[David de Beer · Accepted solution]

Hm.. did you modify sendmail.cf to use service.switch?

ServiceSwitchFile=/etc/mail/service.switch


What does your /etc/nsswitch.conf look like?

[David de Beer]

And did you restart sendmail after modifying? Might be a dumb question, but it never harms to ask..

[Jonathan Grymes]

ServiceSwitchFile=/etc/mail/service.switch was commented out. Fixed that.

nsswitch.conf looks like this:

passwd:files
group: files
hosts: files [SUCCESS=return NOTFOUND=continu TRYAGAIN=continue UNAVAIL=continue] dns
ipnodes:files [SUCCESS=return NOTFOUND=continu TRYAGAIN=continue UNAVAIL=continue] dns
services:files [SUCCESS=return NOTFOUND=continu TRYAGAIN=continue UNAVAIL=continue] dns
networks:files [SUCCESS=return NOTFOUND=continu TRYAGAIN=continue UNAVAIL=continue] dns
protocols:files [SUCCESS=return NOTFOUND=continu TRYAGAIN=continue UNAVAIL=continue] dns
rpc:files [SUCCESS=return NOTFOUND=continu TRYAGAIN=continue UNAVAIL=continue] dns
publickey: files
netgroup: files [SUCCESS=return NOTFOUND=continu TRYAGAIN=continue UNAVAIL=continue] dns
automount:files [SUCCESS=return NOTFOUND=continu TRYAGAIN=continue UNAVAIL=continue] dns
aliases:files [SUCCESS=return NOTFOUND=continu TRYAGAIN=continue UNAVAIL=continue] dns

[Cesare Salvioni]

hi
in my opinion nsswitch.conf should configure dns ONLY for hosts and not as your file for everything.

Also, the message seems to deal with aliases, try a praliases to see if you have strange entries in the alias map.
If so modify the file /etc/mail/aliases and run newaliases to rebuild the map