[NTLUG:Discuss] SendMail issue

Kenneth Loafman ken at lt.com
Tue Jun 10 09:18:36 CDT 2003


Paul Drew wrote:
> sendmail[3032988]: h5AD04tW3239227: SYSERR(root): hash map "Alias0": 
> unsafe map file /etc/aliases.db: World writable directory

Why is your /etc directory world writable?  Bad security risk.

> sendmail[3032988]: h5AD04tW3239227: SYSERR(root): dbm map "Alias0": 
> unsafe map file /etc/aliases: No such file or directory

This one seems obvious.  How did you get an aliases.db without an 
aliases file?

...Ken




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