[techtalk] More problems...

[James Sutherland]

On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Michelle Murrain wrote:

> Wish it were simply a permissions issue. All of the files in /etc/mail are
> there, and thier permissions haven't changed (they are all owned by root, and
> chmod 744)
>
> It's a much wierder problem. I think that it has to do with somehow, the
> system in general can't read or deal with DB files. I tried to do a "makemap
> hash" in a different situation, and it barfed on me.

Looks like you're being bitten by Debian bug 94103, as someone else said:
they've changed the db libraries, and sendmail broke as a result. Not
entirely sure of a workaround yet - have you tried renaming the current
/etc/mail/aliases.db to another name, and rebuilding from the text file?


James.