On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, Mike Nachlinger wrote:
> "alias -p" reveals no aliases on my system.
>
This will show your bash aliases and has nothing to do with smail.
> Running "mkaliases /etc/aliases" returns
> "/usr/sbin/mkaliases: unknown file type, , for aliases"
> I've modified /etc/aliases with the addition majordomo aliases.
> Mail to majordomo is routed to postmaster
> This happens on the saved dist. file also.
> MTA is smail.
I also was confused but this is what I found out. Smail doesn't need a
mkaliases run (at least not for plain test /etc/aliases), so nothing to
worry about. If you want to get rid of this errormessage, then edit
/usr/lib/smail/mkaliases and edit the line ALIASES_TYPE='' to
ALIASES_TYPE='lsearch' (don't use bsearch, this has cost me my aliases
file and some hair as well :-). Maybe you want to save your /etc/aliases
file prior to a testrun with the modified mkaliases.
Ciao,
Martin
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