On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:09:54AM -0700, Warren Block wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Jim wrote:
>
> >make in /etc/mail fails (silently) to create aliases.db. I touched all
> >the source files I modified to make sure they would be rebuilt (since
> >the last rebuild failed).
>
> Just tried it here successfully, although I'd usually do newaliases.
>
> >[r...@mail-jail /etc/mail]# /usr/sbin/sendmail -v -bi
> >-OAliasFile=/etc/mail/aliases
> >sendmail: -O option ignored
> ...
> >postalias: dict_eval: const Postfix
> ...
> >postalias: open hash /etc/aliases
>
> Looks like you're using postfix pretending to be sendmail. Evidently
> postfix doesn't build aliases.db the same way. You might try
> newaliases.
>
Yeah, that might work. I had troubles with aliases and the database
and it didn't resolve itself until I ran newaliases. But newaliases is
just a symlink to /usr/sbin/mailwrapper. It calls /etc/mail/mail.conf
with newaliases which point to the *real* binary. That's where things
disappear down the rabbit hole.
Are you trying to run sendmail as postfix?
> -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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