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Date:      Fri, 4 Sep 1998 16:19:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
To:        "Alain G. Fabry" <fabry@panam.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sendmail question
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980904160656.10019f-100000@java.dpcsys.com>
In-Reply-To: <009301bdd847$c5aae1b0$5531d5c6@earth.coserve.org>

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On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Alain G. Fabry wrote:
> When the system boot, it gives me the following error:
> 
> ............ sendmail[119]:NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): hash map "Alias0"
> unsafe map file /etc/aliases : No such file or directory
> 
> The file /etc/aliases does exist.

/etc/aliases is required.  Here's the standard stuff from mine.
Run newaliases after installing the file.

Dan
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 Dan Busarow                                                  949 443 4172
 Dana Point Communications, a California corporation        dan@dpcsys.com
 Dana Point, California  83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4   8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82

#	$Id: aliases,v 1.3.2.2 1997/08/21 12:07:55 wosch Exp $
#	@(#)aliases	5.3 (Berkeley) 5/24/90
#
#  Aliases in this file will NOT be expanded in the header from
#  Mail, but WILL be visible over networks.
#
#	>>>>>>>>>>	The program "newaliases" must be run after
#	>> NOTE >>	this file is updated for any changes to
#	>>>>>>>>>>	show through to sendmail.
#
#
# See also RFC 2142, `MAILBOX NAMES FOR COMMON SERVICES, ROLES 
# AND FUNCTIONS', May 1997


# Basic system aliases -- these MUST be present
MAILER-DAEMON: postmaster
postmaster: root

# General redirections for pseudo accounts
bin:	root
daemon:	root
games:	root
man:	root
news:	root
nobody:	root
operator: root
system:	root
toor:	root
usenet: news
uucp:	root
xten:	root

# Well-known aliases -- these should be filled in!
# root:
# manager:
# dumper:

# BUSINESS-RELATED MAILBOX NAMES
info: your_userid_here
marketing: your_userid_here
sales: your_userid_here
support: your_userid_here

# NETWORK OPERATIONS MAILBOX NAMES
abuse:	root
noc:		root
security:	root

# SUPPORT MAILBOX NAMES FOR SPECIFIC INTERNET SERVICES
ftp: 		root
ftp-bugs: 	ftp
hostmaster: 	root
webmaster: 	root
# www: 		webmaster

# msgs: "| /usr/bin/msgs -s"
# bit-bucket: /dev/null
# dev-null: bit-bucket


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