Subject: Re: annoying sendmail error
To: Armen Babikyan <synapse@lethargy.mit.edu>
From: SamMaEl <rimsky@teleport.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/30/1997 15:56:21
On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Armen Babikyan wrote:

> ---cut here---
> Dec 30 16:56:43 friction sendmail[11176]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): hash map
> "Alias0": unsafe map file /etc/aliases: No such file or directory
> ---cut here---
> This message shows up exeactly every half hour.
> I ran a "touch /etc/aliases", but that didn't seem to work. anyone have an
> idea how to fix this?

	You need to run /usr/bin/newaliases to create your /etc/aliases.db
file. For some reason 1.3_ALPHA did not come with this file... and it
happens every half hour because that is the default for how often sendmail
should startup.

	Ryan
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