On Mon, 2 Sep 1996, Nick Waterman wrote:
> Having just gone beyond the point-of-no-return and installed exim on all
> of our machines INCLUDING our main mailhub...
>
> I now discover that the standard Sun YP makefile calls "sendmail -bi" as
> part of it's sequence. I now find I can't rebroadcast YP files because
> of this.
>
> -bi Initialize the alias database.
>
> Now admittedly I don't really NEED the aliases file to be broadcast over
> YP any more, but the standard "ypinit" stuff seems to set up a makefile
> that includes it.
>
> Any ideas, anyone?
Hack Exim to ignore "-bi". I will put something in the code. I already
need to do something for AIX, which uses its own private "-x" option for
something or other. I may add a compile-time option or something.
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