Probably a formatting error in /etc/aliases. Send along an example.
Ric
Franki wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
> I am getting these messages whenever I try to run "newaliases"
>
> I was getting it with my normal file, so I changed it to a clean file from
> the rpm update, and it still does it..
>
> /etc/aliases: line 18: daemon... cannot alias non-local names
> /etc/aliases: line 19: buildaddr: no mailer in parsed address
> /etc/aliases: line 19: games... cannot alias non-local names
> /etc/aliases: line 20: buildaddr: no mailer in parsed address
> /etc/aliases: line 20: ingres... cannot alias non-local names
> /etc/aliases: line 21: buildaddr: no mailer in parsed address
> /etc/aliases: line 21: nobody... cannot alias non-local names
> /etc/aliases: line 22: buildaddr: no mailer in parsed address
> /etc/aliases: line 22: system... cannot alias non-local names
> /etc/aliases: line 23: buildaddr: no mailer in parsed address
> /etc/aliases: line 23: toor... cannot alias non-local names
> /etc/aliases: line 24: buildaddr: no mailer in parsed address
> /etc/aliases: line 24: uucp... cannot alias non-local names
> /etc/aliases: line 27: buildaddr: no mailer in parsed address
> /etc/aliases: line 27: manager... cannot alias non-local names
> /etc/aliases: line 28: buildaddr: no mailer in parsed address
> /etc/aliases: line 28: dumper... cannot alias non-local names
> /etc/aliases: line 29: buildaddr: no mailer in parsed address
> /etc/aliases: line 29: operator... cannot alias non-local names
> /etc/aliases: line 32: buildaddr: no mailer in parsed address
> /etc/aliases: line 32: decode... cannot alias non-local names
> /etc/aliases: 0 aliases, longest 0 bytes, 0 bytes total
>
>
> Does anyone know why this is???
>
>
> regards
>
> Frank
>
>
>
