topic starting send mail in Operating System - HP-UX

starting send mail

lawrenzo_1 — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 15:19:09 GMT

starting sendmial gave out the following error:

hash map "Alias0" : unsafe map file /etc/mail/aliases.db: permission denied.

the file has smmail:mail owner with 644 permissions.

is this correct?

Tahnks

Re: starting send mail

James A. Donovan — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 15:23:44 GMT

The correct permissions for aliases.db is 640.

Re: starting send mail

Sanjay_6 — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 15:26:30 GMT

Hi,

Check the permission of /etc/mail directory

ls -ld /etc/mail

its permissions should be 555 and it should be owned by bin:bin

Hope this helps.

Regds

Re: starting send mail

lawrenzo_1 — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 15:33:37 GMT

yes I can see that - but the problem seems to be that sendmail is not configured and should be disabled - we have two informix servers and on one it is disable but just stopped on the other

how do you disable sendmail

Re: starting send mail

James A. Donovan — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 15:36:34 GMT

If you don't want it to run, just modify the /etc/rc.config.d/mailservs file by setting SENDMAIL_SERVER=0.

And if tht doesn't work, just remove the file that tries to start sendmail from your /sbin/init.d directory

Re: starting send mail

lawrenzo_1 — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 15:55:31 GMT

sorted /etc/rc.config.d/mailsvrs has an entry to change