The original posting was :
>I was still running the standard sendmail 5.65
>
>I've just compiled sendmail 8.9.1 with the latest patch and when trying to
>use it in test mode, I have the following error messages :
>
># /usr/sbin/sendmail.8.9.1 -bt
>WARNING: Group writable directory /var
>hash map "revaliases": unsafe map file /var/adm/sendmail/revaliases.db:
>Group writable directory
>hash map "Alias0": unsafe map file /var/adm/sendmail/aliases.db: Group
>writable directory
>dbm map "Alias0": unsafe map file /var/adm/sendmail/aliases
>WARNING: cannot open alias database /var/adm/sendmail/aliases; reading text
>version
>ADDRESS TEST MODE (ruleset 3 NOT automatically invoked)
>Enter <ruleset> <address>
>
>I suppose that all the "Group writable directory" are just warning.
>
>Then I've tried to recreate aliases and revaliases files and got some other
>problems :
># /usr/sbin/sendmail.8.9.1 -bi -oA/var/adm/sendmail/aliases
>WARNING: Group writable directory /var
>hash map "revaliases": unsafe map file /var/adm/sendmail/revaliases.db:
>Group writable directory
>WARNING: Group writable directory /var
>hash map "Alias0": unsafe map file /var/adm/sendmail/aliases.db: Group
>writable directory
>dbm map "Alias0": unsafe map file /var/adm/sendmail/aliases
>WARNING: cannot open alias database /var/adm/sendmail/aliases
>Cannot create database for alias file /var/adm/sendmail/aliases
># /usr/sbin/sendmail.8.9.1 -bi -oA/var/adm/sendmail/revaliases
>WARNING: Group writable directory /var
>hash map "revaliases": unsafe map file /var/adm/sendmail/revaliases.db:
>Group writable directory
>WARNING: Group writable directory /var
>hash map "Alias0": unsafe map file /var/adm/sendmail/revaliases.db: Group
>writable directory
>dbm map "Alias0": unsafe map file /var/adm/sendmail/revaliases
>WARNING: cannot open alias database /var/adm/sendmail/revaliases
>Cannot create database for alias file /var/adm/sendmail/revaliases
>
>So it's impossible to create new versions.
>
>Thank you for your help.
Thanks to :
Graham Allan <ALLAN_at_mnhep1.hep.umn.edu>
Tom Webster <webster_at_ssdpdc.lgb.cal.boeing.com>
Tom Smith <smith_at_semail.mro.dec.com>
Felix Maurer <maurerf_at_post.ch>
The solution is to remove the w permission for the group on the /var
directory, but all is not resolved.
When is issue the sendmail -bi command , for each line of the aliases file,
I've the following error message:
/var/adm/sendmail/aliases: line 363: Daniel.Clar... cannot alias non-local
names
and here is the line 363 in the /var/adm/sendmail/aliases file :
Daniel.Clar: dc_at_alpha
The result is of course ;
/var/adm/sendmail/aliases: 0 aliases, longest 0 bytes, 0 bytes total
Which is not very good ...
How to explain that these users are local ?
Daniel
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Received on Fri Aug 28 1998 - 09:40:15 NZST