From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 19 15:21:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D2DD37B422 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 15:21:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by itouch.co.nz (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f6JMLSt03635; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 10:21:28 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 10:21:28 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Caleb Walker Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail Problems Message-ID: <20010720102128.B2823@itouchnz.itouch> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from calebwalker69@hotmail.com on Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 09:43:24PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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... > > #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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Opportunities are seldom labeled To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message