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Subject: Re: sendmail is erroring on aliases file
From: Jeff Wasilko <jeffw @ smoe . org>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 00:24:40 -0400
To: Robert Chalmers <robert @ nanguo . chalmers . com . au>, majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <199804290344.NAA02090@nanguo.chalmers.com.au>; from "Robert Chalmers" on Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 01:44:21PM +1000
Mail-followup-to: Robert Chalmers <robert@nanguo.chalmers.com.au>,majordomo-users@GreatCircle.COM
References: <199804290344.NAA02090@nanguo.chalmers.com.au>

On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 01:44:21PM +1000, Robert Chalmers wrote:
> 
> I have majordomo 1.94.4 running fine, well a bit of fine tuning is needed
> but when I try to put the aliases file reference into sendmail, V8.8.8
> , and restart sendmail, it tells me  the following;
> 
> sendmail[1907]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): hash map "Alias1": unsafe map file /usr/local/etc/majordomo/majordomo.aliases: Permission denied
> sendmail[1907]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): Cannot create database for alias file /usr/local/etc/majordomo/majordomo.aliases: Operation not supported by device
> nanguo sendmail[1920]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): hash map "Alias1": unsafe map file /usr/local/etc/majordomo/majordomo.aliases: No such file or directory

I think you either need to run newaliases (which might work) or
create the database file (/usr/local/etc/majordomo/majordomo.aliase.db
most likely) with touch and then run newaliases.

Sendmail won't create the binary database file automatically.

Jeff


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