newaliases problem

Lemming

I've upgraded a machine (testbox - so doesn't really matter right now) to sendmail 8.12.8 as a trial run before doing it for real on a critical mail server. I have sendmail up and running, but when I try to run the 'newaliases' command I get the following:

$prompt-> newaliases
Cannot rebuild aliases: no database format defined
Cannot create database for alias file /etc/aliases

I can't seem to find where a db format is specified anywhere. I've pointed the sendmail.cf file to the correct location of the aliases file, and I have an aliases db file alongside it in the /etc directory

Any suggestions?? :-/

longword

Try rebuilding the sendmail.cf from sendmail.mc

davej

This sounds like you haven't got a DB compiled into the binary.

Take a look at chapter 33 of the o'reilly Sendmail book.

davej

Lemming

Originally posted by davej
This sounds like you haven't got a DB compiled into the binary.

Ahhh PANTS!!!

Cheers lads! Several strands of my hair have you to thank for still being here!

Lemming

Ok, after reading the docs over and over I'm still a bit confused as to where im' supposed to specify the DB(s) to be supported.

The documentation keeps ranting on about various .m4 files that don't exist, and the ./sendmail/Makefile.m4 doesn't appear to have anywhere to actually specify DBs ......

or am I looking in the wrong place?

To be honest this documentation just confuses me

Typedef

Err, not exactly what you're looking for, but.

Use postfix... it is the way.

Lemming

Originally posted by Typedef
Err, not exactly what you're looking for, but.

Use postfix... it is the way.

Not an option since my current problems are a trial run for a live-server which IS running sendmail.