[techtalk] More problems...

[James Sutherland]

On Tue, 1 May 2001, Michelle Murrain wrote:
>
> Thanks for the detail on the bug - I did a look at the bug reports on the
> debian website - I can't figure out whether it's fixed - it looked like
> someone had changed the sendmail package to fix it. I did another
> update/upgrade and sendmail was in the list of packages to be upgraded, but
> it didn't solve the problem. I'm still looking about for workarounds,
> although I think I'm doing OK at this point until the problem gets solved.
> I've done a bit of workarounds so that I get mail (I made new accounts where
> I just had aliases). But it's weird - I can't figure out why mailman works,
> and the plain aliases don't. (Not that I'm complaining!)

Mailman presumably receives mail directly, and handles aliases internally?

> I've also tried several things - rebuilding from the text file is one, making
> a db from text on a different machine - none of them worked.

Have you tried rebuilding sendmail from source, and seeing if that binary
works? (Or just copy the binaries from another machine, or do a
downgrade?)

I tend to do upgrades like this by building from source, then testing with
the new binary in another location, before replacing the old one - at
least, I do on "production" systems. Look on the bright side: at least
your upgrade upgraded something, MandrakeUpdate doesn't even ATTEMPT to
upgrade anything for me :-)


James.