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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Sun, 27 Jul 1997 mark@intervista.net wrote:

> yesterday i upgraded to sendmail 8.8.6.and when i ran sendmail
> it really messed up.i got an error saying
> 
> "cannot open hash database /etc/aliases:no such file or directory"
> 
> /etc/aliases is there.its the same aliases file that i used with
> 8.8.5.id really appreciate any help.

Try running 'newaliases' to bring the database back into spec.  

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