Bug 24435 – newalias command failed (/etc/aliases not found)

Bug 24435 - newalias command failed (/etc/aliases not found)

Summary:	newalias command failed (/etc/aliases not found)

Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 23900

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	sendmail (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.1
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Florian La Roche
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Reported:	2001-01-19 18:44 EST by Chris Negus
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:30 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2001-01-19 18:44:38 EST
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Description Chris Negus 2001-01-19 18:44:31 EST

I made a change to the /etc/aliases file and ran the /usr/bin/newaliases
command to update the aliases databases. I received the error message:

newaliases: cannot open '/etc/aliases': No such file or directory

The /etc/aliases file exists. It is owned by root and has 644 permissions.
Opening permissions (666) didn't help.

Comment 1 R P Herrold 2001-01-21 11:22:13 EST

workaround is to remove single-quotes around /etc/aliases in sendmail.cf


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 23900 ***

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