Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 13:21:50 +0000 From: "Riley J. McIntire" <chaos@tgci.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: (Fwd) help with sendmail .mc spam filters Message-ID: <199802012144.NAA09340@train.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 ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- 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
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