Hi,
Why uucp user owns aliases file?
Check permission and ownership. This is a quote from sendmail's README:
+-----------------------+
| DIRECTORY PERMISSIONS |
+-----------------------+
Sendmail often gets blamed for many problems that are actually the
result of other problems, such as overly permissive modes on directories.
For this reason, sendmail checks the modes on system directories and
files to determine if can have been trusted. For sendmail to run
without complaining, you MUST execute the following command:
chmod go-w / /etc /etc/mail /usr /var /var/spool /var/spool/mqueue
chown root / /etc /etc/mail /usr /var /var/spool /var/spool/mqueue
You will probably have to tweak this for your environment (for example,
some systems put the spool directory into /usr/spool instead of
/var/spool and use /etc/mail for aliases file instead of /etc). If you
set the RunAsUser option in your sendmail.cf, the /var/spool/mqueue
directory will have to be owned by the RunAsUser user. As a general rule,
after you have compiled sendmail, run the command
sendmail -v -bi
to initialize the alias database. If it gives messages such as
