newaliases command: problem

[Tardigrade]

When I attempt to run the newaliases command I get the following errors.

warning: cannot lock /etc/aliases: Error 0
hash map "Alias0": unsafe map file /etc/aliases.db: Permission denied
WARNING: cannot open alias database /etc/aliases
Cannot create database for alias file /etc/aliases

I've checked for lock files in all the places I can think of and stopped all processes that I think could possibly be locking it, with no success.

I'm running sendmail 8.9.3 on RedHat Linux 6.2.

Any help would be massively appreciated!

Cheers
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Scott

 

[AndyBo]

Are you running "newaliases" as root? As the sendmail "aliases" file has been open to abuse in the past, I think you need to log in as root to run "newaliases".

If you are logged in as root, then what are the permissions on the file "/etc/aliases.db"?