The long aliases were truncated but I guess the solution offered by you is good and I would like to try out the same.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Cameron Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 4:16 AM Subject: Re: Sendmail and a BIG alias file > On 13:29 29 Apr 2002, Ashwin Khandare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | We entered lot of aliases in /etc/aliases then we ran newaliases and then it > | truncated the file to whatever aliases it could handle > | but not all that was entered. > > It should have worked fine. The only real catch is that an individual > alias line can't be bigger than a DBM record (1024 bytes? something like > that). So my code takes the longer aliases and splits them up like this: > > foo: user1, user2,.....,userN,foo-sub0 > foo-sub0: userN+1,...,userZ,foo-sub1 > foo-sub1: userZ+1,... > > and so forth. Sendmail happily stitches all that back together so that > mailing to "foo" goes to everyone as you intended. > > Did you lose aliases outright, or were individual long aliases truncated? > -- > Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ > > In this [Christmas] season I can find warmth and good will to all men - > except for the inventor of the telephone. - Mark Twain > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.330 / Virus Database: 184 - Release Date: 2/28/02 _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
