> I am having a problem with sendmail. > > When I attempt to use the "newaliases" command, I get > the following error: > > /etc/mail# newaliases > hash map "Alias0": unsafe map file > /etc/mail/aliases.db: Permission denied > dbm map "Alias0": unsafe map file /etc/mail/aliases: > No such file or directory > WARNING: cannot open alias database > /etc/mail/aliases > Cannot create database for alias file > /etc/mail/aliases [...] > Does anybody have any clues as to what is going on? > The permissions for the /etc/mail directory appear > to be OK as they are for the aliases.db file: > > /etc/mail# ls -al > total 254 > drw-r--r-- 3 root mail 1024 Jan 16 > 10:29 . > drwxr-xr-x 38 root sys 4608 Jan 16 > 11:25 ..
/etc/mail itself should be 755, not 644. This message posted from opensolaris.org
