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- From: muegel@rtsg.mot.com (Michael S. Muegel)
- Subject: SR10.4 sendmail problem
- Message-ID: <1992Jul26.224748.10326@rtsg.mot.com>
- Sender: news@rtsg.mot.com
- Nntp-Posting-Host: taupe
- Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 22:47:48 GMT
- Lines: 34
-
- I have been using a version of IDA sendmail I compiled for some time
- Recently I decidied to give the SR10,4 IDA+apollo sendmail a try. Since I
- had alias auto-rebuild off I had to turn it on in the sendmail.cf file.
-
- When sendmail tries to re-build the alias file on the fly I get the
- following errors:
-
- % testmail mmuegel
- rebuilding alias database
- /usr/lib/aliases: line 23: DBM store of mailmgr (size 15) failed: Not owner
- /usr/lib/aliases: line 24: DBM store of postmaster (size 18) failed: Not owner
- /usr/lib/aliases: line 25: DBM store of postmaster (size 18) failed: Not owner
- ...
-
- This goes on through each alias. The mode/ownership on the dbm(3) files look
- like this before I run sendmail (via the testmail script):
-
- % ls -lasg aliases*
- 1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 38 Jul 26 17:41 aliases@ -> /etc/mai
- l_admin/bsd4.3/usr/lib/aliases
- 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 4096 Jul 26 17:43 aliases.dir
- 52 -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 200704 Jul 26 17:43 aliases.pag
-
- After the sendmail call the dbm files are zero length. Oh ya, yes, sendmail
- is mode 4555 with an owner of root. So it is running suid root.
-
- Any hints?
- -Mike
-
- --
- -Michael S. Muegel <mmuegel@mot.com>
- Software Tools Group
- Fort Worth Research and Development Center
- Motorola, Inc.
-