On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Jim wrote:
Looks like you're using postfix pretending to be sendmail. Evidently
postfix doesn't build aliases.db the same way. You might try newaliases.
I tried that, but it had an identical result.
If you want to keep postfix, you'll have to figure it out separately.
On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 18:11 -0500, Jim wrote:
> >Yeah, that might work. I had troubles with aliases and the database
> >and it didn't resolve itself until I ran newaliases. But newaliases
> > is
> >just a symlink to /usr/sbin/mailwrapper. It calls
> > /etc/mail/mail.con
> Yeah, that might work. I had troubles with aliases and the database
> and it didn't resolve itself until I ran newaliases. But newaliases is
> just a symlink to /usr/sbin/mailwrapper. It calls /etc/mail/mail.conf
> with newaliases which point to the *real* binary.
> Looks like you're using postfix pretending to be sendmail. Evidently
> postfix doesn't build aliases.db the same way. You might try newaliases.
>
I tried that, but it had an identical result.
-Jim Stapleton
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On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:09:54AM -0700, Warren Block wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Jim wrote:
>
> >make in /etc/mail fails (silently) to create aliases.db. I touched all
> >the source files I modified to make sure they would be rebuilt (since
> >the last rebuild failed).
>
> Just tried it here
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Jim wrote:
make in /etc/mail fails (silently) to create aliases.db. I touched all
the source files I modified to make sure they would be rebuilt (since
the last rebuild failed).
Just tried it here successfully, although I'd usually do newaliases.
[r...@mail-jail /etc/mai
> What happens if you do a grep aliases in /etc/mail? In my sensmail
> files I see references to aliases in the config *.cf and Makefile,
> and the aliases file itself.
as in ls `/etc/mail | grep aliases` or `cat /etc/mail/* | grep aliases`
The former shows the file 'aliases'
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:00:03PM -0500, Jim wrote:
> make in /etc/mail fails (silently) to create aliases.db. I touched all
> the source files I modified to make sure they would be rebuilt (since
> the last rebuild failed). What I am finding is that the command
> "/usr/sbin/sendmail -bi -OAliasFi
