Armen Babikyan wrote:
> 
> I have had this error on my box show up ever since i installed 1.3ALPHA,
> and it's only annoying now when i'm stuck using the console instead of X:
> ---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 should probably grab a copy of the distribution's /etc/aliases file,
there are a few somewhat important aliases that should be in there.  When
you've done that, you need to run 'newaliases' to rebuilt the aliases
database.

> I'd also be interested to find out how i can make a specific program's
> syslog entries make their own unique log files. for example, i'd like to
> find a way to output all the syslog messages from sshd into a file
> "sshd.log". I can see an easy way of doing this to be making an entry
> "sshd.* /var/log/sshd.log" in /etc/syslog.conf, but this can't be done. am
> i missing something? i can see how i can route all my mail errors to a
> certain file, but that's because "mail.*" is built into syslog, "sshd.*"
> isn't, and doesn't give you the option of adding these new
> program-thingies.

I don't know about this one, sorry.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
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