On Aug 14, Abraham J. Stephens wrote
> After setting up my sparc with NetBSD, I ran into this:
> 
> # echo 'hi' | mail root
> # hash map "Alias0": unsafe map file /etc/aliases: No such file or
> directory
> queuename: Cannot create "qfQAA02288" in "/var/spool/mqueue" (euid=1001):
> Permission denied
> 
> Ok, running 'newaliases' fixed the alias0 problem, what about the other??

Check that your sendmail binary is suid root:
rochebonne#/home/bouyer>ls -ld /usr/sbin/sendmail 
-r-sr-sr-x  3 root  kmem  286720 Jul 29 21:58 /usr/sbin/sendmail

> Did I mess up the install?
>

If you extracted the binary set by hand, you need to pass the '-p' flag
to tar.

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