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Date:      Sun, 30 Jul 2000 09:11:52 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Leif Neland <leifn@neland.dk>
To:        Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sendmail 8.11.0 trouble
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10007300901470.64513-100000@arnold.neland.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20000730002843.Q37935@holly.calldei.com>

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On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Chris Costello wrote:

> On Sunday, July 30, 2000, Leif Neland wrote:
> > Freshly cvsupped current.
> > 
> > Sendmail 8.11.0
> > 
> > When invoking sendmail or newaliases I get this message:
> > /etc/pwd.db: Invalid argument
> > 
> > Sendmail can't read /etc/pwd.db, and therefore cannot deliver any local
> > mail.
> > 
> > Howtofixitplease?
> 
>    If you mean when running it as non-root, then you should have
> g+r on /etc/pwd.db, since it carries the same information as
> /etc/passwd anyway.
> 
> 
sendmail is -r-sr-xr-x	root bin
/etc/pwd.db -rw-r--r--  root wheel

I haven't done anything else than unpacking sendmail, building and
installing. No command line options or other tricks, except adding milter
to devtools/Site/site.config.m4

Leif




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