Sendmail Aliases ?

Hi All,

I have recently applied the patch 110615-09 and since then I receive an error 'dbm map "Alias0": unsafe map file /etc/mail/aliases' I have read through as much documentation as I can find and have no clue as to the source of the problem.

If anyone can point me in the right direction I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks in advance.

C

[383 byte] By [CRB66] at [2007-11-25 23:23:36]
# 1
Its probably got something to do with the permissions on the aliases DB files. Its been a while but I think the permissions should be 444. Its probably complaining that a write bit is set.
swoneill at 2007-7-5 18:10:48 > top of Java-index,General,Talk to the Sysop...
# 2

Thanks for the reply, unfortunately the error is still there... It does seem to be quite a mess as any message using an alias fails, thereby remaining in the queue. There are quite a considerable number addressed to postmaster and mailer-daemon that are not getting through (a quick read of these yeilds that it is trying to warn me that the mail to these addresses is failing, a bit circular I know).

I would welcome any other suggestions I can try... failing that I will have to remove the patches in order to get the mail system up and running properly once again, or worse still, restore from backup. eeek.

C

CRB66 at 2007-7-5 18:10:48 > top of Java-index,General,Talk to the Sysop...