sendmail issues - make fails to create aliases.db in /etc/mail

Jim stapleton.41 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 12 23:11:42 UTC 2010


>        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?
>

I did install postgress, I didn't expect it to make any changes (I had
planned on potentially fiddling with it at some point, so I wanted it
in the jail template).

I'm assuming it must have made modifications to my system replacing
sendmail with it?

Thanks
-Jim Stapleton


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