On 15 Nov 1998 sonnie@263.net wrote:

> Hi, I'm running sendmail on NetBSD 1.3.2 for DECsystem 5000/260.
> The flags of the sendmail daemon are "-bd -q30m".
> I tried to mail myself by `mail my_id'. When I finished the context with
> a `.', the system told me:
> `hash map "Alias0": unsafe map file /etc/aliases: No such file or directory'
> But the `/etc/aliases' DOES exist. Why?
> 
	See
	http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/misc/index.html#hash_map_Alias0

> Another confusing thing: When I type `mail' to view letter, I cannot delete 
> it by typing a `d' after the `&' prompt, it says:
> `Unable to lock mailbox: Permission denied'
> The attribute of the `/var/mail' is `drwxrwxr-x':
> 
> $ ls -l /var/mail
> -rw-------  1 root     mail    198414 Nov 15 03:16 root
> -rw-------  1 my_id    mail       308 Nov 15 14:17 my_id
> 
> I tried to use `pine', but it also gave me an error:
> `[Bad context, No '[' in context : mail]'
> 
> The version of `pine' is 3.96.

	Try 'chmod 1777 /var/mail' - will ensure this also gets added to
	the page above :)

		David/absolute

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