I hope you guys don't get sick of my questions...
I have run into a wierd problem - on this box, I'm running debian woody. All
of a sudden (no, it probably went along with an apt-get update, apt-get
upgrade) sendmail is unable to read or rebuild the aliases database. I get
the following error message when I run "newaliases":
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
Also, in /var/log/mail.err, I get:
Apr 30 14:08:58 blackbear sendmail[6424]: NAA05536:
db_open(/etc/mail/users.db): Invalid argument
The strangish thing is that some mail that needs an alias (a simple alias)
doesn't go through (makes perfect sense), whereas other mail that needs an
alias (in particular mailman mail) seems to go through fine. That's a mystery
to me. Mail that doesn't need an alias seems to go through fine (again, makes
sense.)
So, I'm stuck. I can't rebuild the database, or even open it. I'm not sure
exactly what broke it - a new version of something in woody?
Any solutions? Workarounds, etc.? I've only got about 2 days before mail
starts to bounce.
Michelle
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Michelle Murrain, Ph.D.
President
Norwottuck Technology Resources
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