Hi all,

I seem to be getting a strange permission denied error whilst trying
to rebuild sendmail's aliases.db file within a VS...

[admin@xxxxxx /]$ ls -l /etc/mail/aliases*
-rw-r--r--    1 admin    admin        1049 Sep  2 15:14 /etc/mail/aliases
-rw-r--r--    1 admin    admin           0 Sep  2 15:19 /etc/mail/aliases.db
[admin@xxxxxx /]$ ls -l /etc/aliases*
-rw-r--r--    1 admin    admin        1049 Sep  2 15:22 /etc/aliases
-rw-r--r--    1 admin    admin           0 Sep  2 15:22 /etc/aliases.db
[admin@xxxxxx /]$ newaliases
Permission denied
[admin@xxxxxx /]$

Anyone got any ideas?  /usr/bin/newaliases is a symlink to
../sbin/sendmail and /usr/sbin/sendmail does exist and every has
execute writes to it (suExec root).

Also, if I just put the line
"root:   admin"
in /etc/mail/aliases then do
# makemap hash /etc/mail/aliases.db < /etc/mail/aliases
then doing a "sendmail -bv root@localhost" just hangs.

TIA

-- 
Ben Kennish
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