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[Peter Farmer <address@concealed>]

Serge,

Are you getting any relevant messages in the web server error log ? if the 
newaliases command is not being executed (vi wwsympa.fcgi) successfully for 
any reason there should be an error message which may shed some light ...

You can use the 'strings' command to determine if the path of the compiled 
in newaliases command is correct :

  strings /your/systems/path/to/aliaswrapper 

if the correct path isn't in the output you'll need to reconfigure and 
recompile to pick it up newaliases.

Beginning with sendmail v8.11 only root and users listed with the 
TrustedUser option can rebuild the aliases databases vi newaliases . If you 
are neither the rebuild will fail . If this is your problem you should see 
an error message like 
  Permission denied (real uid not trusted) 
in your system mail logs. 
aliaswrapper has setuid permission for this purpose, but it needs to be 
owned by root (or a sendmail trusted user) and executable by the sympa 
user . 

Regards,
Peter Farmer

On Wednesday 07 June 2006 8:54 pm, address@concealed wrote:
> address@concealed wrote:
> > 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, 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.
> >>
> >> Do I have to recompile in order to get alias_manager.pl to run
> >> newaliases for me?  Or do people usually just      newaliases as a
> >> cron
> >> job?
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >
> > At the end, if you are in troubles because of that, you may configre
> > sendmail to automatically rebuild aliases when needed (I  remember the
> > option is named  AutoRebuildAlias )
>
> Sorry this option as been removed in sendmail 8.12