Date: Mon, 9 Dec 96 00:16 CST From: uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Cc: uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org Subject: bin/2184: sendmail has lots of trouble with local delivery - FDIV047 Message-ID: <m0vWz19-000uPPC@nemesis.lonestar.org> Resent-Message-ID: <199612090630.WAA08318@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 2184 >Category: bin >Synopsis: sendmail has lots of trouble with local delivery - FDIV047 >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Dec 8 22:30:01 PST 1996 >Last-Modified: >Originator: Frank Durda IV (uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org) >Organization: >Release: FreeBSD 2.2-ALPHA i386 >Environment: [FDIV047] Freshly installed FreeBSD 2.2-ALPHA, logged-in as root, no other accounts or other configuration done, apart from establishing network and named settings. Stock file permissions. Default alias file. >Description: # mail non-existant-local-user (I used "bon") Subject: test test ^D # sendmail -q -v & LONG DELAY (some minutes) Why? bon...User unknown Correct. /root/dead.letter... cannot open: Permission denied. Why? Warning: alias database /etc/aliases db out of date Why? WARNING: cannot open alias database /etc/aliases Which message is right? /etc/aliases: 10 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 109 bytes total Uh huh. Warning: alias database /etc/aliases db out of date Why? WARNING: cannot open alias database /etc/aliases Which message is right? /etc/aliases: 10 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 109 bytes total Uh huh. Issues: 1. Why the long delay for a local delivery? No network contact should be needed at all. 2. /root/dead.letter doesn't exist. Is sendmail supposed to complain like this and not just create the dead.letter file? (I use smail normally so sendmail actions in this case are not known to me) 3. Why does it consider /etc/aliases out of date? File has 13-Nov date as in 2.2-ALPHA distribution. 4. Why does it say it cannot open /etc/aliases (permissions 644)? This message also contradicts the "out of date" message noted in #3. 5. Why does it then repeat these complaints a second time after apparently processing the /etc/aliases file? >How-To-Repeat: See above. >Fix: Workaround is to install smail. :-) >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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