FC5: Sendmail error

Gilbert Sebenste sebenste at weather3.admin.niu.edu
Tue May 23 18:54:55 UTC 2006


On Tue, 23 May 2006, Paul Howarth wrote:

>> When I manually type "newaliases" as root, it also gives me this message.
>> After doing a search on the Web, others have had the problem, but I
>> couldn't find a resolution. My permissions on the files in question:
>>
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root  root   9961 May 20 00:10 aliases
>> -rw-r----- 1 smmsp smmsp 24576 May 22 13:40 aliases.db
>>
>> Those are correct permissions, from what I can tell. Any ideas? Now, here's the
>> kicker: When I remove aliases.db manually, and then type "newaliases"
>> everything is as shown above...*except* the user is root for aliases.db,
>> and I don't get the silly error message anymore. (Scratches head)...I
>> think I have owner or group permissions messed up somewhere, but I am not
>> familiar with the inner workings of Sendmail to figure this out.
>>
>> Any help will be greatly appreciated!
>
> aliases.db should be owned by root, not smmsp. Not sure how it gets that
> way, but I've seen that before.

I think I might have found the problem: in sendmail.cf (yes, I know you're 
not supposed to dork around with it), the trusted user was smmsp. I made 
it root. Is that a good idea?

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