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From: "Riley J. McIntire" <chaos@tgci.com>
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I'm forwarding this for backgroud, but the only issue that contiues 
is that I'm getting the message:


Feb 1 13:07:05  nitetrain sendmail[1655]:
gethostbyaddr(205.185.169.7) failed: 1 

Is this a DNS related error being reported by sendmail? 

Thanks for any pointers.

Riley


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Hi all,

Coming from a firm position of ignorance about sendmail, if anyone
could help with the errors I'm getting it'd be greatly appreciated!

nitetrain is running 2.2.5

 Errors:

Jan 31 15:27:36 nitetrain sendmail[23356]:
gethostbyaddr(205.185.169.7) failed: 1 
Jan 31 15:27:36 nitetrainsendmail[23356]: alias database /etc/aliases
rebuilt by mary
 Jan 31 15:27:36 nitetrain sendmail[23356]:/etc/aliases: 21 aliases,
longest 10 bytes, 212 bytes total Jan 31 15:27:36 nitetrain
sendmail[23356]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): hash map "Alias1": unsafe map
file /usr/local/majordomo/majordomo.aliases: Permission denied Jan 31
15:27:36 nitetrain sendmail[23356]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): Cannot
create database for alias file /usr/local/majordomo/majordomo.aliases:
Operation not supported by device

Background:
At this point in time I'm basically just trying to set up an 
alternative aliases file for majordomo.  For this machine I 
copied the canned freebsd.mc file to train.mc.  I then added the the
line:

define(`ALIAS_FILE', 
`/etc/aliases,/usr/local/majordomo/majordomo.aliases')dnl

Now my understanding it that this will produce  2 aliases, the default
/etc/aliases and a new one for majordomo.

In perusing the system (2.2.5-R  New to me) I found /etc/mail 
with some neat spam filters.   I appended the additions file to the mc
file I made, thusly:

cat sendmail.cf.additions >> /path/to/ train.mc

Then (in /etc/mail) "make install" which made the filter databases.

After m4 ../cf.m4 train.mc > sendmail.cf, moving the new file to /etc,
and restarting sendmail, we get the above errors.

Thanks again,

Riley