database: aliases (ignorant question)

[Jack F. Vogel]

In article <1990Sep18.035134.20683 at world.std.com> dcc at world.std.com (Dave C Curado) writes:
 
>When I boot up our SysV machine (Wyse 386) (Version 3.2) I get an error
>message:
>  could not open database: /usr/lib/aliases
>
>..... The file *does* exist, and is readable.
 
This message is being issued by sendmail, it is a little misleading. When
it says "database" what sendmail actually means is the dbm data files
generated from /usr/lib/aliases. You apparently have not created these,
thus the error. In order to create aliases.dir and aliases.pag issue the
command:
		/usr/lib/sendmail -bi

That should eliminate the error message. Cheers!



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