If it's sendmail 8.8.8 (latest Sun patchs), you should add:
O RunAsUser=uucp
in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.
HTH,
-JCT-
> Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 01:29:00 -0400
> From: W Joel Gridley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Les Diefenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Yes, could someone please answer Mr. Diefenbach? He has
> asked this question before, and I was dissappointed to see
> that no one answered, as I am also having issues regarding this.
>
> At 10:11 AM 10/4/99 -0500, Les Diefenbach wrote:
> >I'm running Gauntlet 5.0 on Solaris 2.6 and when I give the newaliases
> command
> >I get the following error:
> >
> ># newaliases
> >WARNING: local host name (hades) is not qualified; fix $j in config file
> >dbm map "Alias0": unsafe map file /etc/mail/aliases
> >WARNING: cannot open alias database /etc/mail/aliases
> >Cannot create database for alias file /etc/mail/aliases: No such device
> >#
> >
> >I want to add an alias for firewalladmin in the alias file to send
> >mail to my real email address. Right now, the messages are bouncing because
> >firewalladmin is a unknown user.
> >
> >Permissions are as follows:
> >
> >drwxr-xr-x 2 bin mail 512 Oct 4 09:04 .
> >drwxr-xr-x 28 root sys 4096 Oct 4 09:06 ..
> >-r--r--r-- 1 root root 94 Apr 14 08:32 .MAP
> >-r--r--r-- 1 root other 94 Sep 23 10:01 .MAP.PRE5.0
> >-rw-r--r-- 1 bin bin 153 Sep 22 10:51 Mail.rc
> >-rw-r--r-- 1 uucp root 1013 Oct 4 09:21 aliases
> >-rwxr-xr-x 1 uucp other 1201 Sep 23 10:01 aliases.PRE5.0
> >-rwxr-xr-x 1 uucp root 0 Sep 22 11:03 aliases.dir
> >-rw-r--r-- 1 uucp root 1011 Oct 4 08:57 aliases.old
> >-rwxr-xr-x 1 uucp root 1024 Sep 22 11:03 aliases.pag
> >-rw-r--r-- 1 bin bin 1829 Sep 22 10:37 mailx.rc
> >-r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 11973 Sep 22 10:37 main.cf
> >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root other 26865 Sep 22 11:29 main.cf.new
> >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15285 Oct 4 09:26 sendmail.cf
> >-r--r--r-- 1 root other 27176 Sep 23 10:01 sendmail.cf.PRE5.0
> >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15285 Oct 4 08:57 sendmail.cf.old
> >-rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 4911 Sep 21 03:37 sendmail.hf
> >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32 Sep 22 11:43 sendmail.pid
> >-r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 9197 Sep 22 10:37 subsidiary.cf
> >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root other 27176 Sep 22 11:29 subsidiary.cf.new
> >
> >
> >/usr/lib/sendmail permissions are as follows:
> >
> >
> >-rwsr-xr-x 1 uucp bin 346984 Sep 21 03:37 /usr/lib/sendmail
> >
> >
> >--
> >Thanks Les
> >==================================================================
> >Computer Sciences Corporation
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >"As a matter of fact, I do have a plan - and it's so cunning,
> >you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel."
> >==================================================================
> >
> >-
>
>
>
>
> Joel Gridley, CCNA "Be the packet."
> Network Security/Firewall Specialist
> GTE Internetworking, "Powered by BBN."
> Burlington, MA
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