From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 25 01:36:27 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C749816A4CE for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 01:36:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gen129.n001.c02.escapebox.net (gen129.n001.c02.escapebox.net [213.73.91.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 543D043D46 for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 01:36:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gemini@geminix.org) Message-ID: <40B3056C.8070803@geminix.org> Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 10:35:56 +0200 From: Uwe Doering Organization: Private UNIX Site User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040119 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200405250742.i4P7gDp22491@server1.web-mania.com> In-Reply-To: <200405250742.i4P7gDp22491@server1.web-mania.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: from gemini by geminix.org with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1BSXPi-0002OS-00; Tue, 25 May 2004 10:35:58 +0200 Subject: Re: Security run question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 08:36:27 -0000 Edd wrote: > I recieved my security run today (as usual) and an error which I have > never seen before appeared: > > hitbox.monsternet.lan kernel log messages: > >>tabase /etc/aliases.db: No such file or directory > > A quick locate shows that there is no such command as tabase! Any ideas > what this might be? That should probably read "database", and the message just got clipped for some reason. Some program apparently tried to access '/etc/aliases.db', failed to do so and logged an error message, which the security run scripts subsequently reported to you. You may want to investigate which of your software expects 'aliases.db' directly under '/etc'. Normally, this file lives under '/etc/mail' in FreeBSD, or at least in 4.x, and all software ported to FreeBSD properly should know about that. Did you install some programs directly from their original source, that is, not from the FreeBSD ports/packages collection? Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers gemini@geminix.org | http://www.escapebox.net