[plug] Sendmail Aliases

[Damion Hill]

On thursday night I managed to short the wrong jumper on my 
running linux box and forced a shutdown (Doh!) now that it is back 
up sendmail wont start because it can't read the aliases database.

I'm not sure why this would have suddenly stopped working, the 
original files (/etc/aliases and /etc/aliases.db) had last modified 
dates of August last year so AFAIK they haven't changed.

Sendmail fails to start with message in /var/log/mail.log - 
NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): Cannot open hash database 
/etc/aliases.db: Invalid argument.

I have tried newaliases to rebuild the hash but it says it can't open 
either /etc/aliases or /etc/aliases.db. Both files are owned root.root 
with perms 644

I have deleted /etc/aliases.db and rewritten /etc/aliases but still get 
the same error. Sendmail version 8.9.3

Any ideas what I might have overlooked?

Cheers,
Damion.
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Damion Hill
dhill at wantree.com.au