starting send mail

[lawrenzo_1]

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

[James A. Donovan]

The correct permissions for aliases.db is 640.

[Sanjay_6]

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

[lawrenzo_1]

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

[James A. Donovan · Accepted solution]

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

[lawrenzo_1]

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