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Re: NIS users unknown for procmail?

1999-06-01 05:14:47
On Mon, 31 May 1999, Philip Guenther wrote:

Peter Koltl <koltl(_at_)infosys(_dot_)ceu(_dot_)hu> writes:
Could someone tell me if procmail (v3.13.1) can recognize NIS users?
...
procmail: Unknown user "koltl"

Procmail simply uses the standard getpwnam() and getpwuid() routines.
The three things I would check are:

(a) Does /etc/passwd have the correct "+:::etc..." entry in it?  If NIS
    users can login, then the answer must be yes.  Otherwise, fix it.

(b) When procmail was compiled, did it link against a broken libsocket
    and libnsl?  If the procmail initmake script put those on the link
    line then do a "make realclean", edit Makefile and remove -lsocket
    and -lnsl from SEARCHLIBS, and the rebuild procmail and give it
    another shot.

Hi Philip, thanks a lot, this (b) hack (: has solved the problem. What do
you mean by "broken" libsocket? Does /usr/lib/libsocket.so contain bugs on
my IRIX?

bye
Peter

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