Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 21:33:38 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Redmond Militante <r-militante@northwestern.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/mail/aliases.db out of date Message-ID: <20030417203338.GC44948@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <20030417201719.GE49401@darkpossum> References: <20030417201719.GE49401@darkpossum>
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On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 03:17:19PM -0500, Redmond Militante wrote:
> hi
>=20
> i cvsup'd a few days ago to 4.8 from 4.7
>=20
> ever since, i've been receiving the following message repeatedly in root'=
s email security reports
>=20
> Apr 17 15:00:01 xhostname sm-mta[58360]: alias database /etc/mail/aliases=
=2Edb out of
> +date
>=20
>=20
> how did this happen?
You updated /etc/mail/aliases, probably by running mergemaster, but
you didn't regenerate the aliases.db file from the aliases file -- and
it's aliases.db being older than aliases which sendmail is complaining
about.
Fix is simple. Just run:
# newaliases
Cheers,
Matthew
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Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks
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