[NTLUG:Discuss] SendMail issue

[Bug Hunter]

  You may have to restart sendmail to get the newaliases applied.....

On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Paul Drew wrote:

> Ok guys,
> I think we may be in the clear here now. I would like to thank each of you 
> for your time, and experience. I think we are fixed, but time will tell of 
> course. :)
> 
> I checked permissions on / with the ls -ld and it was indeed world writable, 
> and I checked most of our other servers to find that some were this way, and 
> some were not. I am going to get them buttoned down shortly.
> 
> Once I did that I ran the newaliases command again, and I got no errors this 
> time. I got the following feedback which looks good to me:
> /etc/aliases: 30 aliases, longest 22 bytes, 475 bytes total
> 
> There are no errors messages or anything else so that makes me think things 
> should be good. There is tons of verbosity in the SYSLOG about whats its 
> doing, but no error messages. I am going to be checking into those soon 
> enough when I get more time. I think I read earlier that I don't need to 
> cycle sendmail if all I did was new aliases. Let me know if I am wrong 
> please. Anyways, thanks again for all your help. Have a great day, and take 
> care.
> 
> Paul Drew
> 
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