mail aliases not creating alias.db file

[HPP]

Guys,
I installed Patch for sendmail on HP-UX 11.00. If i try to start sendmial, it gives the following error:
"newaliases: cannot open /etc/mail/aliases: Group writable file"

Its does not create aliases.db file, when i start sendmail. In the syslog i am seeing "alias database "/etc/mail/aliases.pag" out of date. I did remove aliases.db and aliases.pag file and ran newliases and sendmail -bi, still i get the same error.

when i restart sendmail, the following error appears in syslog
Jan 17 11:59:24 pinto sendmail[14860]: Warning: .cf file is out of date: sendmail 8.9.3 (PHNE_24419) supports version 8, .cf file is version 6
Jan 17 11:59:24 pinto sendmail[14862]: starting daemon (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419)): SMTP+queueing@00:30:00
Jan 17 11:59:24 pinto sendmail[14863]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): hash map "Alias0": missing map file /etc/mail/aliases.db: No such file or directory
Jan 17 11:59:24 pinto sendmail[14863]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): dbm map "Alias0": missing map file /etc/mail/aliases



Any input!!!!!

[harry d brown jr]

Are you root? What are the permissions on the /etc/mail files?

live free or die
harry

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

Hi,

/etc/mail/aliases file should have following permissions..

-rw-r--r-- 1 root sys aliases

Also same for the aliases.db file.

Run newaliases to create new aliases file.

Or Restart the sendmail by /sbin/init.d/sendmail stop and then /sbin/init.d/sendmail start

-USA..