[SUMMARY]sendmail8.8 and berkeley newdb db1.85
2007-12-25 11:48:00
I got several help mail , here it is:
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>from Rudi Boerner
>owner must be root, no bin
thank Rudi Boerner . the aliases file surely owned by root
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>from Claus Assmann
>Make sure /etc and /etc/mail are only writable by root.
>sendmail is setuid root?
thank Claus Assmann. you hit the nail on the head.
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>from srau@nortom.com
>notice that at least in your email etc/mail/aliases and etc/mail/
>sendmail.pid don't begin with a /. Do a grep for etc in your
>sendmail.cf and make sure you have the full paths, starting with
>the /.
thank srau . they are surely begin with the /.
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>from Nadya Williams
>Do you have /etc/aliases, which is a link to /etc/mail/aliases ?
>I recall I had errors until I got the link set (sendmail 8.8.7)
thank Nadya Williams. but /etc/aliases doesn't have any use.
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>and from Travis Choma
>if you got any answers throw them over here i got the exact same
>problem...
thank Travis Choma . you made me feel not alone.
at last I first put the related file/directory in following mode .
drwxr-xr-x root sys /etc
drwxr-xr-x bin mail /etc/mail
rw------- root other aliases
rw------- root other sendmail.pid
then , touched the aliases.db file , and ran newaliases command, then
sendmail deamon . all runs like a charm .
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my original question:
Hi, gurus:
Recently I installed berkeley newdb db 1.85 , and sendmail8.8.8 with
berkeley newdb and ndbm defined.
But when I run _newaliases_ , it prompt :
newaliases: cannot open /etc/mail/aliases: Permission denied
I am running this command with root privilege and the file
/etc/mail/aliases is right there.
One day ago when I installed the sendmail with only ndbm
defined, all works just fine , the newaliases command got the
aliases.dir and aliases.pag dbm file.
And I also know the well-known bug about sendmail , that is you must
first
touch a aliases dbm file ( aliases.dir aliases.pag or aliases.db) , then
run the newaliases command to get the really db file . but this is not
my case.
Moreover , when I run the sendmail deamon with the command line :
sendmail -bd -q1h
i get such error messages :
NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): hash map "Alias0": unsafe map file
etc/mail/aliases: Permission denied
Nov 20 18:23:05 testeam sendmail[360]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): dbm map
"Alias0": unsafe map file /etc/mail/aliases: No such file or directory
Nov 20 18:23:05 testeam sendmail[359]: unable to write
etc/mail/sendmail.pid
The deamon is keep running , but you can't send mail.
I think the deamon even unable to write /etc/mail/sendmail.pid, it must
be some security issue take effect. but what's it ?
I will appriciate your help .
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