Use chmod to set the permissions on /etc/sendmail.cf to 644, and make
surethat the owner.group is root.wheel.

Also, do a touch on /etc/aliases to create the file, then type the
newaliases command.

On Thu, 21 May 1998, Shigeki Uno wrote:

> Hello. 
> I always receive and send e-mail on macbsd. 
> Recently I'm thinking of using procmail(mail filter)with "Mew",
> but I don't run sendmail. I noticed that sendmail is nessesary 
> for my machine to use procmail. So I have tried to run sendmail
> many times,but faied. Details is as fallows...
> 
>  ・瘢雹Edit /etc/rc.conf   sendmail=YES  sendmail_flags="-bd -q5m"
>  
>  ・瘢雹Edit sendmail.cf making use of CF-3.6W
> 
>  ・瘢雹reboot and error messages appears...
> 
>       Starting network daemons: sendmail/etc/sendmail.cf: WARNING:
>       dangerous write permissions
> 
>       May 19 22:39:36 antena sendmail[171]: /etc/sendmail.cf: 
>       WARNING: dangerous write permissions
> 
>       May 19 13:39:38 antena sendmail[180]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
>       hash map file /etc/aliases: No such file or directory   
>       
> #time is not correct(^^;).
> What's wrong is it ? A file "sendmail.cf" is not correct ?
> If "sendmail.cf" is needed, I'll post it.
> Please give me a nice advice.
> 
> --------
> Shigeki Uno
> from Japan
> 

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