Bug 575989

Summary:	newaliases fails with - /etc/aliases.db: Invalid type 5 specified
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Pete Huckelba <redhat>
Component:	sendmail	Assignee:	Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	13	CC:	jskarvad, mlichvar
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Description Pete Huckelba 2010-03-22 22:04:18 UTC

Description of problem:
newaliases fails to update

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
sendmail-8.14.4-3.fc13.i686
sendmail-cf-8.14.4-3.fc13.noarch

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. edit /etc/aliases and save
2. type newaliases
3. see error
  
Actual results:
[root@dini ~]# newaliases
/etc/aliases.db: Invalid type 5 specified
Cannot open hash database /etc/aliases.db: Invalid argument
WARNING: cannot open alias database /etc/aliases
Cannot create database for alias file /etc/aliases

Expected results:
[root@ares ~]# newaliases
/etc/aliases: 912 aliases, longest 428 bytes, 24280 bytes total

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jaroslav Škarvada 2010-03-23 07:56:19 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 556148 ***