On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 11:59 -0500, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: > Hello all, > > I just installed a fresh copy of FC5. I uncommented the network loopback so > that it would accept email from all. Everything worked fine, but suddenly in my > "logwatch" this morning, on all my machines, I note the following: > > 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 > > When I manually type "newaliases" as root, it also gives me this message. > After doing a search on the Web, others have had the problem, but I > couldn't find a resolution. My permissions on the files in question: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9961 May 20 00:10 aliases > -rw-r----- 1 smmsp smmsp 24576 May 22 13:40 aliases.db > > Those are correct permissions, from what I can tell. Any ideas? Now, here's the > kicker: When I remove aliases.db manually, and then type "newaliases" > everything is as shown above...*except* the user is root for aliases.db, > and I don't get the silly error message anymore. (Scratches head)...I > think I have owner or group permissions messed up somewhere, but I am not > familiar with the inner workings of Sendmail to figure this out. > > Any help will be greatly appreciated! aliases.db should be owned by root, not smmsp. Not sure how it gets that way, but I've seen that before. Paul.
