Hi Ben,

This is how i have it working :

drwxr-xr-x   16 root     root         4096 Aug 22 22:25 /etc

-rw-r--r--    1 admin    admin        4782 Sep 25 14:35 /etc/aliases
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        12288 Sep 25 14:35 /etc/aliases.db

> Hi all,
> 
> Has anyone managed to solve that "/etc/mail/aliases.db needs to be
> owned by root else sendmail hangs" problem?

I changed the owner of /etc/aliases.db and didnt have a problem with sendmail.
(?)

> It effectively prevents admin users on a VS creating mail aliases.

it shouldnt. Does sendmail is configured to run as root or admin ?

Regards,
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Urivan Saaib
Presidente
CiberNET Mexico 
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