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