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[Dale Ghent <address@concealed>]

On Apr 19, 2006, at 4:10 PM, Redmond Militante wrote:

> On our sympa installation, I can run alias_manager.pl from the  
> command line, and when I create a new list via
> wwsympa.fcgi, alias_manager.pl runs and appends new list aliases  
> to /etc/mail/sympa.aliases - but it looks like it
> is not running 'newaliases' after appending to sympa.aliases.  I  
> have to log in as root and run 'newaliases'
> manually in order to successfully send mail to my new list,  
> otherwise I get a mail delivery notification telling
> me that the message can't be delivered because the recipient is  
> unknown - running 'newaliases' fixes this.

Sympa is probably trying to run newaliases as whatever user you're  
running Sympa as. To get around this, you might need to set a SUID/ 
SGID root bit on newaliases/sendmail.

/dale

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Dale Ghent
UNIX Systems Specialist
UMBC - Office of Information Technology
ECS 201 - x51705