Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 22:30:45 From: "Caleb Walker" <calebwalker69@hotmail.com> To: jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail Problems Message-ID: <F64i08N8yxdZjfNLnly00000e8f@hotmail.com>
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That is what I needed I thought is to rebuild the sendmail.cf file and I cannot find any info on it. How do I do that? And how do I change the other "This is bad"s? >From: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> >To: Caleb Walker <calebwalker69@hotmail.com> >CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: Sendmail Problems >Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 10:21:28 +1200 > >On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 09:43:24PM +0000, Caleb Walker wrote: > > I dont know if my earlier message got through or not or if you guys just > > will not reply to a message created from hotmail but this all I have >right > > now because my mail server is down. This is the error I am getting and >I do > > not know why. > > I am using a freshly installed sendmail 8.11.4/8.9.3 and am running > > Stable-4.3 Any help would be much appreciated. > > I apologize if there are any format problem with this email since >hotmail is > > now converted to Windows this may suck now I dont know... > > > > <root-02:36pm>#newaliases > > WARNING: World writable directory / > > WARNING: World writable directory / > >This is bad. > > > hash map "Alias0": unsafe map file /etc/aliases.db: World writable >directory > >So is this. > > > WARNING: cannot open alias database /etc/aliases > >Here's your problem. > >The aliases file is now located in /etc/mail. Did you not update your >/etc/mail/sendmail.cf to reflect new locations? Best thing to do is to >rebuild it from your m4 .mc file. > >Also, you need to run newaliases to actually create the alias file: >aliases.db. > >Cheers. >-- >Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Opportunities are seldom labeled _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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