In article <3.0.5.32.19990827162947.00b076c0@gnv.fdt.net>,
>Aug 27 12:37:06 kookoo sendmail[141]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): hash map
>"Alias0":
>unsafe map file /etc/aliases: No such file or directory
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>   Now this one is mostly me being dumb:  what is this hash map?  I do not
>have
>   a file /etc/aliases.  Is that something sendmail is up to, so I should
>check 
>   sendmail's config file or something?

/etc is group writable.

christos