Steve
It does not seem to change. Mine on a server with a few hunderd sites still
shows:
cat aliases
#
# Aliases in this file will NOT be expanded in the header from
# Mail, but WILL be visible over networks or from /bin/mail.
#
# >>>>>>>>>> The program "newaliases" must be run after
# >> NOTE >> this file is updated for any changes to
# >>>>>>>>>> show through to sendmail.
#
# Basic system aliases -- these MUST be present.
mailer-daemon: postmaster
postmaster: root
# General redirections for pseudo accounts.
bin: root
daemon: root
adm: root
lp: root
sync: root
shutdown: root
halt: root
mail: root
news: root
uucp: root
operator: root
games: root
gopher: root
ftp: root
nobody: /dev/null
vcsa: root
canna: root
wnn: root
rpm: root
nscd: root
pcap: root
apache: root
webalizer: root
radvd: root
pvm: root
amanda: root
privoxy: root
ident: root
named: root
xfs: root
gdm: root
mailnull: root
postgres: root
sshd: root
smmsp: root
postfix: root
netdump: root
ldap: root
squid: root
ntp: root
mysql: root
desktop: root
rpcuser: root
rpc: root
nfsnobody: root
ingres: root
system: root
toor: root
manager: root
dumper: root
abuse: root
# mailman aliases
mailman: postmaster
mailman-owner: mailman
newsadm: news
newsadmin: news
usenet: news
ftpadm: ftp
ftpadmin: ftp
ftp-adm: ftp
ftp-admin: ftp
# trap decode to catch security attacks
decode: root
# Person who should get root's mail
#root: marc
root: admin
----
Ken Marcus
Precision Web Hosting, Inc.
http://www.precisionweb.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Davis" <steve (at mark) zio.com>
To: <bq (at mark) solarspeed.net>
Cc: <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2006 8:08 PM
Subject: [coba-e:06701] Re: Dumbfounded
> One question:
>
> Should the aliases file contain any user names or alias usernames? It
> remains unchanged
> from the initial install. The virtusertable has all the userid and alias
> id's.
>
> Could this be the problem?
>
> I did notice 'abuse' in the aliases file.
>
> Steve
>
>
> coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org writes:
>>Hi Steve,
>>
>>> Yes I have done both and newaliases. I have Brian's Nuonce MailScanner,
>>> SpamAssassion, and ClamAV. Usually work well, have on the Raq systems,
>>> but
>>> make be the reason they break here.
>>
>>Ah, ok. As far as I know they shouldn't break the alias behaviour of
>>Sendmail.
>>
>>> Can you recommend any other log file I may look besides maillog to help?
>>
>>It is unlikely that /var/log/messages will show anything related to this
>>issue. So /var/log/maillog would indeed be the place to look for errors
>>concerning this problem.
>>
>>What you can do is to increase value for the switch "O LogLevel=9"
>>in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
>>
>>Set it to 15 and restart Sendmail/MailScanner. Then check /var/log/maillog
>>again and see if you get more information relevant to the problem.
>>
>>But do not forget to set the LogLevel back to 9 (and restart Sendmail
>>afterwards), or your /var/log/maillog will get *very* big pretty soon.
>>
>>--
>>
>>With best regards,
>>
>>Michael Stauber
>>
>>
>>--
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>>dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
>>believed to be clean.
>>
>
>
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