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Date:      Sun, 30 Jul 2000 00:28:44 -0500
From:      Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
To:        Leif Neland <leifn@neland.dk>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sendmail 8.11.0 trouble
Message-ID:  <20000730002843.Q37935@holly.calldei.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10007300219220.83737-100000@arnold.neland.dk>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10007300219220.83737-100000@arnold.neland.dk>

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On Sunday, July 30, 2000, Leif Neland wrote:
> Freshly cvsupped current.
> 
> Sendmail 8.11.0
> 
> When invoking sendmail or newaliases I get this message:
> /etc/pwd.db: Invalid argument
> 
> Sendmail can't read /etc/pwd.db, and therefore cannot deliver any local
> mail.
> 
> Howtofixitplease?

   If you mean when running it as non-root, then you should have
g+r on /etc/pwd.db, since it carries the same information as
/etc/passwd anyway.

-- 
|Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
|Computer and car salesmen differ in that the latter know
|when they are lying.
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