From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 27 08:07:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA15703 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 27 May 1998 08:07:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lucy.bedford.net (lucy.bedford.net [206.99.145.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA15655 for ; Wed, 27 May 1998 08:07:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listread@lucy.bedford.net) Received: (from listread@localhost) by lucy.bedford.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA23827; Wed, 27 May 1998 11:07:27 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from listread) Message-Id: <199805271507.LAA23827@lucy.bedford.net> Subject: Re: alias 0 errors In-Reply-To: <199805271245.FAA21109@hub.freebsd.org> from Wyatt Nordstrom at "May 27, 98 08:44:00 am" To: wyattn@nortel.ca (Wyatt Nordstrom) Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 11:07:27 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-to: djv@bedford.net From: CyberPeasant X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wyatt Nordstrom wrote: > Recently I upgraded to 2.2.6. Immediately, I began to get errors every > morning on my console. The errors are complaing about a missing alias > 0 from the /etc/aliases file(or something similar, I do not have the > error message with me). The errors are being generated through some > job being run by cron, and I believe they have something to do with > sendmail. > > Thanks for any assitence. > Wyatt You're right. Run newaliases as root, and your problems should disappear. (assuming that the /etc/aliases file exists, and is in good shape). Dave -- Is the true purpose of Unix its use, or its administration? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message