Wayne Sitton wrote: > Cannot open hash database /etc/mail/aliases.db: Invalid argument > WARNING: cannot open alias database /etc/mail/aliases > Cannot create database for alias file /etc/mail/aliases > > What's the deal?
Are you using unstable? Try apt-get update, and reinstall sendmail (remove /var/cache/apt/archives/sendmail*, to make sure). I have my system all right after installing sendmail8.11+8.12 and libdb3 3.20-5. BTW, the new Sendmail can multi-thread; try to send email using "mail", and repeat it in a tight loop (eg: using Perl), say, for 250 times. Then netstat; you'd see that the mail server would open 250 smtp ports on the destination servers. Interesting... (espescially when your system grinds to a halt due to out of swapspace :-) There must be some (free) process accounting software out there... Oki