> At 2002-01-08 11:39:27 -0500 "Daniel J. Luke" wrote: >> On Tue, 2002 Jan 08 at 00:02:58 -0800, jgo wrote: >> Anyone know of likely things that could be going wrong, here? > > By default, sendmail on OS X doesn't use the alias file (it uses NetInfo). > > Either modify your sendmail.cf file to use the alias file,
It says it's using /etc/mail/aliases but... > or put your aliases into the /alias directory of netinfo -- > > Here's an example: > % niutil -read . /aliases/foo > name: foo > members: "|/path/to/bar.pl" Yes! That was a significant step. I looked at the niutil man page, but ended up just adding them in via the NetInfo GUI since there were just a few. Now, it complains: smrsh: wrapper not available for sendmail programs and I do recall mention of smrsh, but ignored it after not seeing smrsh anywhere (using sudo find / ...) at the time. >> Oh, and one other thing. For some unknown reason, the permissions on some >> of the /etc files/directories keeps changing back to allow group write! >> ...is there any reason this should happen? >> >> Mac OS X 10.1.2 >> Mailman 2.0.7 > > Sometimes Installer.app packages stomp over permissions on your > filesystem (for example, every time I install an OS update from > Apple, I have to fix the permissions on / on my machine). Sounds like a reasonable explanation. I had done a sw update from Apple each time before it did that. John G. Otto, Eagle Scout, Knight, Cybernetic Praxeologist Existence, Consciousness, Identity, Life, Liberty, Property, Privacy, Justice ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
