Re: help please

[George Bonser <grep@shorelink.com>]

On Thu, 13 May 1999, B Koteswara rao wrote:

> hi
> 
> i have installed sendmail version 8.9.3. when i run sendmail 
> its giving warning like: hash map "Alias0": unsafe map file /usr/local/etc/mail/aliases.db: Group writable directory
> dbm map "Alias0": unsafe map file /usr/local/etc/mail/aliases: No such file or directory
> WARNING: cannot open alias database /usr/local/etc/mail/aliases; reading text version--
> 
> I  have also copied the aliases file from my other server.

run the newaliases command and remove the group writable permission from
/usr/local/etc/mail ( chmod g-w /usr/local/etc/mail ) OR you could install
the debian sendmail package and not have those problems.