What does "dbm: no open database" mean?

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2 total messages Started by J.B. Nicholson-Owens Sat, 01 Aug 1992 04:30

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Author: J.B. Nicholson-Owens
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1992 04:30

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When sending mail, even mail to someone on the same host, I always
get "dbm: no open database".  It says that just after typing
"mail jeffo" (when I mail myself as a test).

What causes this and how can I fix this?

Also, could this have anything to do with Mail.app not working as it
should or sendmail holding up all the mail in the mqueue dir (it is
saying stat=Skipped in the syslog a *lot* and coming up with
stat=unknown mailer error 1 a lot).

Thanks.
-- 
-- Jeff (jeffo@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu)
-- No NeXTmail please

Re: What does "dbm: no open database" mean?

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Author: Benoit Grange
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 1992 15:40

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In article <BsAF6q.3zC@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (J.B.  
Nicholson-Owens) writes:
> When sending mail, even mail to someone on the same host, I always
> get "dbm: no open database".  It says that just after typing
> "mail jeffo" (when I mail myself as a test).
> 
> What causes this and how can I fix this?
I think this is caused by a missing aliases.dir (and/or aliases.pag) file
in /etc/sendmail/
You should try to do /usr/bin/newsaliases
> 
> Also, could this have anything to do with Mail.app not working as it
> should or sendmail holding up all the mail in the mqueue dir (it is
> saying stat=Skipped in the syslog a *lot* and coming up with
> stat=unknown mailer error 1 a lot).
> 
This may be caused by wrong permissions on files/dirs used by uux.
I am currently tracking this problem on my computer.
I don't think this has anything to do with the previous problem.
-- 
Benoit Grange - PARIS - FRANCE

Mail to : ben@fizz.fdn.org (SMALL NeXTMails accepted, < 10kb)

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