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[Serge Aumont <address@concealed>]

Dale Ghent wrote:

> 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.

Sympa run "aliaswrapper" (a .c  programs distributed with Sympa). The 
aliaswrapper shoud installed with owner root and SUID.   Another 
solution is to activate "autorebuildaliases" feature in sendmail :
http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly/networking/sendmail/ch34_08.htm#SML2-CH-34-SECT-8-4

Serge Aumont