[NTLUG:Discuss] SendMail issue

Paul Drew solarcurve at msn.com
Tue Jun 10 09:37:04 CDT 2003


>From: Kenneth Loafman <ken at lt.com>
>Reply-To: NTLUG Discussion List <discuss at ntlug.org>
>To: NTLUG Discussion List <discuss at ntlug.org>
>Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] SendMail issue
>Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:18:36 -0500
>
>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.

It isn't I had already checked this weeks ago, and I don't understand why 
its saying that. My permissions on /etc are:
drwxr-xr-x   21 root     sys           12K Jun  9 08:16 etc

>
>>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?

I have an /etc/aliases file and It seems intact with all of the entries in 
it that I think should be.

>
>...Ken

Thanks for your help Ken, I do appreciate it, I guess I can scratch those 
off the list of things I have looked at now. Your answers are what I was 
finding in google, and while they sound good, they don't seem to be the 
problem. Do you think it means something is hosed inside the aliases file? I 
tried messing around with some things I saw suggested, and they did no good. 
I inherited this server about 10 months ago, so I am not real clear on its 
history. It has been in service since 1995. The following line I saw, and 
tried to fix based on some suggestions I read.

# Following alias is required by RFC 822
#       You should change 'root' in the first line below to the 
administrator
#       of this machine, and un-comment the following line.
#postmaster:root

I tried the following things
postmaster:(me at myemail)
root:(me at myemail)

Neither of these attempts resolved my issue at all. I have gotta be missing 
some large simple thing, but for the life of me I cannot figure it out. As I 
said above, I do appreciate any help and comments you guys are nice enough 
to give me. Have a great day, and take care.

Paul Drew

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