Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 01:42:44 -0700 From: "white vamp" <whitevamp47@hotmail.com> To: gemini@geminix.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Security run question Message-ID: <BAY2-F9VhjNIjmMPqng0002c333@hotmail.com>
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I had the same thing show up today .. and what it wound up being was postfix >From: Uwe Doering <gemini@geminix.org> >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Security run question >Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 10:35:56 +0200 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Received: from mx2.freebsd.org ([216.136.204.119]) by mc1-f4.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6824); Tue, 25 May 2004 01:39:00 -0700 >Received: from hub.freebsd.org (hub.freebsd.org [216.136.204.18])by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPid F104355C7F; Tue, 25 May 2004 01:37:28 -0700 (PDT)(envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org) >Received: from hub.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1])by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPid 372BB16A4DE; Tue, 25 May 2004 01:37:28 -0700 (PDT) >Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C749816A4CEfor <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;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 543D043D46for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;Tue, 25 May 2004 01:36:27 -0700 (PDT)(envelope-from gemini@geminix.org) >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 >X-Message-Info: JGTYoYF78jGQ297wEsTD8PkvWAki7ePG >Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Message-ID: <40B3056C.8070803@geminix.org> >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 >References: <200405250742.i4P7gDp22491@server1.web-mania.com> >In-Reply-To: <200405250742.i4P7gDp22491@server1.web-mania.com> >X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 >Precedence: list >List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org> >List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> >List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions> >List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> >List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> >List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> >Errors-To: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Return-Path: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 May 2004 08:39:01.0522 (UTC) FILETIME=[BAA2E720:01C44233] > >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 >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to >"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" _________________________________________________________________ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar – get it now! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/
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