On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
Am Sa, den 25.06.2005 schrieb Richard E Miles um 1:57:
I noticed in my logwatch that newaliases could not create the /etc/aliases.db because of permission problems. I tried newaliases at root and got this message:
hash map "Alias0": unsafe map file /etc/aliases.db: Permission denied WARNING: cannot open alias database /etc/aliases Cannot create database for alias file /etc/aliases
I checked the permissions on these files: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1526 Jun 15 16:40 /etc/aliases -rw-r----- 1 smmsp smmsp 12288 Jun 19 10:43 /etc/aliases.db
I see that the owner and group are smmsp on /etc/aliases/db. Is this right? Why am i getting these messages?
Richard E Miles
chown root:root /etc/aliases* chmod 640 /etc/aliases*
In my freshly installed FC4,
$ ls -l /etc/aliases* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1512 Apr 25 12:48 /etc/aliases -rw-r----- 1 root smmsp 12288 Jun 24 20:27 /etc/aliases.db
so the fix for the original problem would just be
chown root /etc/aliases.db
The rest of the permissions were fine.
-- Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
