Re: sendmail hash in /

[Mike Pfleger <pfleger@pfleger-precision.com>]

* Richard A Nelson (cowboy@debian.org) wrote:
> The hash/hash.db are a fluke, I'll look into that, but the others
> shouldn't be sendmail...
> 
> What version of sendmail did you install ? can you remove those two
> files and run `/usr/share/sendmail/update_db` and see if they return ?

Hi Richard & Colin.

I'll nuke the files and see what happens.  In the meantime, the version
of sendmail is reported by dpkg as:
ii  sendmail       8.11.6+8.12.0. A powerful, efficient, and scalable Mail Tra

Not the latest and greatest, but the latest and greatest in Woody as of
Monday.  Here is the result of update_db:

BananaSlug:/# /usr/share/sendmail/update_db
Checking {sendmail,submit}.mc and related databases...
Creating /etc/mail/databases...
Creating /etc/mail/sendmail.cf...
Creating /etc/mail/submit.cf...
Creating /etc/mail/databases...
Creating /etc/mail/Makefile...
Warning:       genericstable source file not found: hash
               it was created
Informational: genericstable file empty: hash
Informational: confCR_FILE file empty: /etc/mail/relay-domains
Informational: confCT_FILE file empty: /etc/mail/trusted-users
Informational: confCW_FILE file empty: /etc/mail/local-host-names

/etc/mail/aliases: 4 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 70 bytes total
 
Warning:       1 database(s) sources
               were not found, (but were created)
               please investigate.


Here are the contents of /etc/mail:

-rwxr-xr-x    1 mail     mail         4566 Oct  5 11:36 Makefile
-rw-r--r--    1 mail     mail          237 Jul  8 22:21 aliases
-rw-r--r--    1 mail     mail        12288 Oct  5 11:36 aliases.db
-rw-r--r--    1 mail     mail         2255 Oct  5 11:36 databases
-rw-r-----    1 mail     mail            0 Jun 18 13:58 dialup.m4
-rw-r--r--    1 mail     mail           43 Jul 11 11:09 generic-domains
-rw-r--r--    1 mail     mail          123 Jul 11 11:09 genericstable
-rw-r--r--    1 mail     mail        12288 Jul 19 11:40 genericstable.db
-rw-r--r--    1 mail     mail         5555 May 10 11:17 helpfile
-rw-r--r--    1 mail     mail            0 Jun 15 16:57 local-host-names
drwxr-xr-x    2 mail     mail         4096 Oct  1 11:24 peers
-rw-r-----    1 mail     mail            0 Jun 18 13:58 provider.m4
-rw-r--r--    1 mail     mail            0 Oct  1 11:24 relay-domains
-rw-r--r--    1 mail     mail        41782 Oct  5 11:36 sendmail.cf
-rw-r--r--    1 mail     mail         9336 Oct  1 11:24 sendmail.conf
-rw-r--r--    1 mail     mail         1247 Oct  1 11:24 sendmail.mc
-rw-r--r--    1 mail     mail        41472 Jul 11 13:56 sendmail.mf
-rw-r--r--    1 mail     mail          149 Oct 25  1999 service.switch
-rw-r--r--    1 mail     mail          180 Oct 25  1999 service.switch-nodns
-rw-r--r--    1 mail     mail        39792 Oct  5 11:36 submit.cf
-rw-r--r--    1 mail     mail         2069 Aug 21 09:50 submit.mc
-rw-r--r--    1 mail     mail            0 Jun 15 16:57 trusted-users
-rw-r--r--    1 mail     mail           74 Jul 11 11:09 userdb
-rw-r--r--    1 mail     mail         8192 Jul 11 14:20 userdb.db


And now the interesting bits in / :

-rw-r--r--    1 mail     mail            0 Oct  5 11:36 hash
-rw-r--r--    1 mail     mail        12288 Oct  5 11:36 hash.db

Urk.  I'm not getting any obvious mail transport problems, so this is
not screwing me out of productive time, but it does concern me.  I am
nowhere near even half-way into the bat book due to more pressing life
demands; but I wish I didn't have to hassle you guys about this :(

Richard: If you want info/files off-list, please advise accordingly.

Thanks for your efforts,
Mike Pfleger

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