Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 10:21:28 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> To: Caleb Walker <calebwalker69@hotmail.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail Problems Message-ID: <20010720102128.B2823@itouchnz.itouch> In-Reply-To: <F501X7Uy7gLYwJe23UT00000e75@hotmail.com>; from calebwalker69@hotmail.com on Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 09:43:24PM %2B0000 References: <F501X7Uy7gLYwJe23UT00000e75@hotmail.com>
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On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 09:43:24PM +0000, Caleb Walker wrote: > I dont know if my earlier message got through or not or if you guys just > will not reply to a message created from hotmail but this all I have right > now because my mail server is down. This is the error I am getting and I do > not know why. > I am using a freshly installed sendmail 8.11.4/8.9.3 and am running > Stable-4.3 Any help would be much appreciated. > I apologize if there are any format problem with this email since hotmail is > now converted to Windows this may suck now I dont know... > > <root-02:36pm>#newaliases > WARNING: World writable directory / > WARNING: World writable directory / This is bad. > hash map "Alias0": unsafe map file /etc/aliases.db: World writable directory So is this. > WARNING: cannot open alias database /etc/aliases Here's your problem. The aliases file is now located in /etc/mail. Did you not update your /etc/mail/sendmail.cf to reflect new locations? Best thing to do is to rebuild it from your m4 .mc file. Also, you need to run newaliases to actually create the alias file: aliases.db. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Opportunities are seldom labeled To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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