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 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/mail/aliases.db out of date Message-ID: 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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--8X7/QrJGcKSMr1RN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --8X7/QrJGcKSMr1RN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+nw+idtESqEQa7a0RAqeBAKCA99sYTonFsPBXx79Mi1tVabPpQACgl+6U sV0UWLHHGk782s9ZZaqUJLA= =ryxo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --8X7/QrJGcKSMr1RN--
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