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Re: no sendmail

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From: Adam Carheden
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 00:00
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Nope, it's owned by mail.mail.

Michael Dwyer wrote:
> 
> Adam Carheden <carheden@holly.colostate.edu> wrote:
> : I spoke too soon, sendmail 8.8 doesn't work.  Here's what's in the log
> : file when I send a message to my mailserver:
> 
> : Feb 11 19:33:19 ftp sendmail[15260]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): Cannot open
> : hash da
> : abase /etc/aliases.db: Invalid argument
> : Feb 11 19:33:19 ftp sendmail[15261]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): queuename:
> : Cannot c
> : eate "qfTAA15261" in "/var/spool/mqueue" (euid=0): No such file or
> : directory
> 
> I would guess that the user that sendmail runs as doesn't have permissions
> to its own files.  Either the files got chown'd to someone else somehow,
> or ... well, what probably happened, is that the UID/GID to Username/Groupname
> mapping stored in the /etc/groups and /etc/passwd files got messed up.
> So, what used to belong to MAIL.MAIL now belong to UUCP.FOO or something.
> 
> Check that.
> 
> --
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> Michael J. Dwyer                      I doubt, therefore I might be.
> mdwyer@holly.ColoState.edu       http://WWW.CS.ColoState.EDU/~dwyer/
> Computer Science Major                      Amateur Radio Tech N0ZAP
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