[NTLUG:Discuss] SendMail issue

[Paul Drew]

Wow, your getting me somewhere now. I in fact DON'T have an /etc/aliases.db. 
I ran the newaliases as you suggested, and I got the following errors:

WARNING: World writable directory /
WARNING: World writable directory /
hash map "Alias0": unsafe map file /etc/aliases.db: World writable directory
dbm map "Alias0": unsafe map file /etc/aliases: No such file or directory
WARNING: cannot open alias database /etc/aliases
Cannot create database for alias file /etc/aliases

I am drawing a complete blank on how to check permissions for /. I ran a 
mount command and got:
/dev/root on / type xfs (rw,raw=/dev/rroot)
(This is exactly the same on some of my other servers)

Thanks again for the help in pointing me in the right direction. I am very 
unexperienced with sendmail and I have to start somewhere. I see that I am 
still getting those errors even after removing the stuff from the define 
line. So where should I go from here?

Paul Drew

>From: asenec at senechalle.net
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>Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] SendMail issue
>Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 10:13:43 -0500 (CDT)
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>What are the permissions on /etc/aliases.db?
>What happens when you execute:
>
>	newaliases
>
>Do you encounter any error messages?  If so, what are they?
>If not, do you now have an new /etc/aliases.db file?
>
>Annette
>
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> > >From: Kenneth Loafman <ken at lt.com>
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> > >Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] SendMail issue
> > >Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:18:36 -0500
> > >
> > >Paul Drew wrote:
> > >>sendmail[3032988]: h5AD04tW3239227: SYSERR(root): hash map "Alias0":
> > >>unsafe map file /etc/aliases.db: World writable directory
> > >
> > >Why is your /etc directory world writable?  Bad security risk.
> >
> > It isn't I had already checked this weeks ago, and I don't understand 
>why
> > its saying that. My permissions on /etc are:
> > drwxr-xr-x   21 root     sys           12K Jun  9 08:16 etc
> >
> > >
> > >>sendmail[3032988]: h5AD04tW3239227: SYSERR(root): dbm map "Alias0": 
>unsafe
> > >>map file /etc/aliases: No such file or directory
> > >
> > >This one seems obvious.  How did you get an aliases.db without an 
>aliases
> > >file?
> >
> > I have an /etc/aliases file and It seems intact with all of the entries 
>in
> > it that I think should be.
> >
> > >
> > >...Ken
> >
> > Thanks for your help Ken, I do appreciate it, I guess I can scratch 
>those
> > off the list of things I have looked at now. Your answers are what I was
> > finding in google, and while they sound good, they don't seem to be the
> > problem. Do you think it means something is hosed inside the aliases 
>file? I
> > tried messing around with some things I saw suggested, and they did no 
>good.
> > I inherited this server about 10 months ago, so I am not real clear on 
>its
> > history. It has been in service since 1995. The following line I saw, 
>and
> > tried to fix based on some suggestions I read.
> >
> > # Following alias is required by RFC 822
> > #       You should change 'root' in the first line below to the
> > administrator
> > #       of this machine, and un-comment the following line.
> > #postmaster:root
> >
> > I tried the following things
> > postmaster:(me at myemail)
> > root:(me at myemail)
> >
> > Neither of these attempts resolved my issue at all. I have gotta be 
>missing
> > some large simple thing, but for the life of me I cannot figure it out. 
>As I
> > said above, I do appreciate any help and comments you guys are nice 
>enough
> > to give me. Have a great day, and take care.
> >
> > Paul Drew
> >
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