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[Olivier Salaün - CRU <address@concealed>]

We need to make things clearer regarding permissions on aliases and aliases.db files...

Here are the privileges that work fine on our FC4 + sendmail :

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sympa sympa xx /home/sympa/bin/alias_manager.pl*
-rwsr-x---  1 root  sympa xx /home/sympa/bin/aliaswrapper*
-rw-r--r--  1 sympa root  xx /etc/mail/sympa_aliases
-rw-r-----  1 root  users xx /etc/mail/sympa_aliases.db

Redmond Militante wrote:

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