From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 22 14:04:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA25393 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 14:04:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rige.physik.fu-berlin.de (rige.physik.fu-berlin.de [160.45.33.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA25265; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 21:03:43 GMT (envelope-from thimm@rige.physik.fu-berlin.de) Received: (from thimm@localhost) by rige.physik.fu-berlin.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA00560; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 23:03:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from thimm) Message-ID: <19980422230340.A415@physik.fu-berlin.de> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 23:03:40 +0200 From: Axel Thimm To: Mike Smith , "Jonathan M. Bresler" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail in -stable and aliases References: <19980422223508.A27999@physik.fu-berlin.de> <199804222038.NAA00639@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199804222038.NAA00639@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 01:38:06PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 01:38:06PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > Did you try restarting sendmail? No, I hadn't, and this was the cause of the grief. After a HUP sendmail behavied well again. > > On a related note I also have problems installing the majordomo aliases (I get a > > strange error from newaliases), which I posted on freebsd-ports. > > The port installs the alias file in an insecure fashion. The > diagnostic from 'newaliases' makes this fairly clear. You need to > change the ownership of the directory containing the alias file. This is also very correct. I just copied the majordomo aliases over to /etc and now they have all the protection they need. About the `restarting sendmail' trap: I had looked through the man pages and found nothing suggesting a restart. Should this be mentioned in newaliases at least? On the other hand there are some parts of sendmail.cf > # automatically rebuild the alias database? > #O AutoRebuildAliases implying that it might even be safe to not issue newaliases at all, if these entries had been uncommented. (But then this might be the reasin they are commented). Thanks for the *very* fast replies! You made my day (or better night on this part of the world). Regards, Axel. -- Axel Thimm Axel.Thimm@physik.fu-berlin.de Axel.Thimm@ifh.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message