System Account <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
