[cobalt-users] re: Sendmail problem

["Phil Lewis" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Message: 5
>Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 08:24:20 +0100
>To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>From: george <ghmclachlan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [cobalt-users] Sendmail problem
>Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>  I have been having problems over the last few weeks with my RAQ running
>very slowly, I didn't know what was causing it, so I rebooted the machine
>yesterday once it restarted I noticed sendmail wasn't running, when I tried
>to restart it I got this error
>
>Setting up Mail Service: sendmail554 5.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 190:
>readcf: unknown option name AutoRebuildAliases<True
>554 5.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 781: replacement $0 out of bounds
>
>Now that sendmail isn't running the RAQ is working fine, so this was
>obviously my problem. Has anyone any idea how to cure this.
>
>
>George

You should try rem'ing this line in your sendmail.cf; you don't really need
it 'cause you can run newaliases from the command line on the occasion that
you add new aliases.  It's created by entering it as an option in the mc
file that creates sendmail.cf; you dn't need to recreate sendmail with mc.

Here's the section in sendmail.cf, FYI:
# automatically rebuild the alias database?
# NOTE: There is a potential for a denial of service attack if this is set.
#       This option is deprecated and will be removed from a future version.
O AutoRebuildAliases=True

Phil Lewis