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[Redmond Militante <address@concealed>]

Hello-

I received this in regards to an installation of sympa I was configuring to 
work with Postfix.  I'm now experiencing the same problem - namely, that 
sympa auto creation of alias fails - on a machine on which I'd like to use 
sendmail as my MTA.

snippet of our sympa.logs
Jun  2 15:41:32 announce wwsympa[6204]: [robot announce.uchicago.edu] [client 
128.135.0.88] [user address@concealed] do_create_list, get action : do_it
Jun  2 15:41:32 announce wwsympa[6204]: 
admin::check_topics(computing/apps,announce.uchicago.edu)
Jun  2 15:41:32 announce wwsympa[6204]: admin::install_aliases : Unable to 
run newaliases

snippet of /var/log/maillog
Jun  2 14:48:55 announce sendmail[2811]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): hash map 
"Alias1": unsafe map file /etc/mail/sympa_aliases.db: Permission denied
Jun  2 14:48:55 announce sendmail[2811]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): Cannot create 
database for alias file /etc/mail/sympa_aliases

/etc/mail/sympa_aliases and /etc/mail/sympa_aliases.db were copied from 
another machine.  I'd like to replicate these aliases onto the new server.  
I've modified sympa_aliases so that the hostname is the hostname of the new 
machine.  

Permissions for /etc/mail are
drwxr-xr-x   3 sympa sympa   4096 Jun  2 15:49 mail

Permissions for /etc/mail/sympa_aliases* are
-rw-r--r--   1 sympa sympa  9243 Jun  2 15:48 sympa_aliases
-rw-r--r--   1 sympa smmsp 24576 Jun  2 15:48 sympa_aliases.db

-I have tried various permissions for /etc/mail/sympa_aliases and 
/etc/mail/sympa_aliases.db.  I've tried making root:root, sympa:sympa, 
sympa:smmsp, and smmsp:smmsp owner of the sympa_aliases.db file - nothing has 
worked so far, I still receive the same error in maillog.

This server is RHEL 4.  I've compiled sympa with
./configure --with-bindir=/etc/smrsh 


+++ Redmond Militante <address@concealed> [06/04/20 09:15]:
> +++ Olivier Salaün - CRU <address@concealed> [06/04/20 08:38]:
> > 
> >    Sympa automatic aliases creation may fail for one of the following
> >    reason :
> >      * The /etc/mail/sympa_aliases file (defined by 'sendmail_aliases'
> >        sympa.conf parameter) does not exist. Starting with Sympa 5.2,

the file exists

> >        sympa.pl is able to create the aliases file if it is missing.
> >      * /etc/mail/sympa_aliases is not used by your MTA. If using
> >        sendmail, add it to sendmail.cf

snippet of our sendmail.cf
# location of alias file
O AliasFile=/etc/aliases,/etc/mail/sympa_alias

> >      * The newaliases command requires special arguments on your system.
> >        You can define the newaliases command and arguments used during
> >        the configure. See
> >        [1]http://www.sympa.org/doc/html/node4.html#SECTION004300000000000
> >        00000

not necessary on our system.

> >      * The aliaswrapper program is missing the SetUID bit

%ls -la /home/sympa/bin/aliaswrapper*
-rwsr-x---  1 root sympa 6645 Jun  2 14:12 /home/sympa/bin/aliaswrapper


> >      * Your /etc/mail/sympa_aliases does not have the appropriate
> >        privileges. It should neither be group-writeable nor
> >        world-writeable

% ls -la /etc/mail/sympa_aliases
-rw-r--r--  1 sympa sympa 9243 Jun  2 15:48 /etc/mail/sympa_aliases

> >      * Your /etc/mail/sympa_aliases.db does not have the appropriate
> >        privileges. This file is created by running newaliase. User
> >        'smmsp' should be owner of this map file
> >

see above.  I've also tried making smmsp:smmsp owner of this file, same 
error.  sympa:smmsp is currently owner of this file.

Any advice appreciated.


 
> >    Redmond Militante wrote:
> > 
> > Isn't alias_manager.pl supposed to run 'newaliases' via aliaswrapper, 
> > whenever
> > it is run?
> > 
> > 
> > On our sympa installation, I can run alias_manager.pl from the command 
> > line, an
> > d when I create a new list via
> > wwsympa.fcgi, alias_manager.pl runs and appends new list aliases to 
> > /etc/mail/s
> > ympa.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 m
> > ail delivery notification telling
> > me that the message can't be delivered because the recipient is unknown - 
> > runni
> > ng 'newaliases' fixes this.
> > 
> > 
> > Do I have to recompile in order to get alias_manager.pl to run newaliases 
> > for m
> > e?  Or do people usually just
> > newaliases as a cron job?
> > 
> > References
> > 
> >    1. http://www.sympa.org/doc/html/node4.html#SECTION00430000000000000000
> 
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> Redmond Militante / NSIT / The University of Chicago
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