From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 21 19:38:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA04357 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 19:38:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from emu.sourcee.com (emu.sourcee.com [199.201.159.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA04294 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 19:38:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nrice@emu.sourcee.com) Received: (from nrice@localhost) by emu.sourcee.com (8.8.8/8.8.3) id WAA12965; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 22:36:50 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <19980121223650.25747@emu.sourcee.com> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 22:36:50 -0500 From: Norman C Rice To: Zula Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/bin/newaliases References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: ; from Zula on Tue, Jan 20, 1998 at 03:53:51PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Tue, Jan 20, 1998 at 03:53:51PM -0500, Zula wrote: > 2.2.5-STABLE > > Please Help, > > > When I try to run /usr/bin/newaliases it just hangs.. sits there doing > nothing. I let it sit there for 30min still nothing. If you have any input > please help. > > -r-sr-xr-x 5 root kmem 290816 Jan 18 22:37 /usr/bin/newaliases > > Thanks, > RPD > Any chance you have `CheckAliases=True' in /etc/sendmail.cf? If so, try turning it off; your system might be "hanging" trying to resolve the right-hand side of each alias through DNS. If not, try running `newaliases -on' to check the right-hand side of the aliases. You might also try `sendmail -bi' just in case newaliases got hosed somehow. If this doesn't help, I would be happy to look at your aliases file(s). -- Regards, Norman C. Rice, Jr.