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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Subject: Re: sendmail 5.65c/IDA 1.4.4 - problem
Message-ID: <1993Jan31.032029.1783@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
References: <C1GyHB.9Av@malihh.hanse.de> <1993Jan28.150711.23605@dsuvax.dsu.edu>
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1993 03:20:29 GMT
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In article <1993Jan28.150711.23605@dsuvax.dsu.edu> ghelmer@dsuvax.dsu.edu (Guy Helmer) writes:
>I have had the same trouble with sendmail/IDA under 386BSD 0.1 using GDBM.
>I've found that I have to kill the sendmail daemon to be able to
>successfully run 'sendmail -bi' or 'newaliases', then restart the daemon
>('sendmail -bd -q30m').
I believe this is because GDBM insists on locking the database. Try a
different database package.
>Anyone know of a way to rebuild the aliases table without having to kill
>the sendmail daemon?
rm -f /etc/aliases+
ln /etc/aliases /etc/aliases+
/usr/lib/sendmail -oA/etc/aliases+ -bi
rm -f /etc/aliases.dir
mv -f /etc/aliases+.pag /etc/aliases.pag
mv -f /etc/aliases+.dir /etc/aliases.dir
rm -f /etc/aliases+