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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Jim <stapleton.41@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: sendmail issues - make fails to create aliases.db in /etc/mail
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On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Jim wrote:

> make in /etc/mail fails (silently) to create aliases.db. I touched all
> the source files I modified to make sure they would be rebuilt (since
> the last rebuild failed).

Just tried it here successfully, although I'd usually do newaliases.

> [root@mail-jail /etc/mail]# /usr/sbin/sendmail -v -bi
> -OAliasFile=/etc/mail/aliases
> sendmail: -O option ignored
...
> postalias: dict_eval: const  Postfix
...
> postalias: open hash /etc/aliases

Looks like you're using postfix pretending to be sendmail.  Evidently 
postfix doesn't build aliases.db the same way.  You might try 
newaliases.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA