Sendmail installation difficulties

[jerkface2098]

I have gone through the steps to install Sendmail. I receive no errors, but when I run

sendmail -v -bi

I get the following errors

Cannot rebuild aliases: no database format defined
Cannot create database for alias file /etc/mail/aliases

I can't find an answer to this problem anywhere. Hopefully somebody out there can help me.

Thanks

 

[wbg34]

It sounds like you compiled sendmail without any database functions. Check out this site for more info.

http://i.org.ua/doc/ora/networking/sendmail/ch33_01.htm

 

[jerkface2098]

Which makefile am I supposed to change? There is more than one and that page doesn't specify which one to edit.

 

[SurFlite]

You need to create empty database files before running
newaliases for the first time.

/etc/mail/aliases.db or /etc/mail/aliases.pag and /etc/mail/
aliases.dir depending on which database format you're using.

Also see:

http://osr5doc.ca.caldera.com:457/MailMsgG/sndmlC.sendmail_execution.html

 

[jerkface2098]

I found out that not only did I need the db-4.1.xxx, I needed the db-devel-4.1.xxxx library installed. It would be nice if this was mentioned in the Sendmail documentation.