Re: [Exim] Exim Errors on Testing

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Author: Jim Knoble
Date:  
To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim Errors on Testing
På 2000-Feb-13 klokka 00:59:50 -0500 skrivet Nancy Wintemberg:

: Ok, I did the test things that were in the documentation.  The first one
: (shows version) works, but the second one (exim -v -bt <local username>)
: didn't.
: This is the error message I got:
: LOG: 0 MAIN PANIC
:   system_aliases director: failed to open /etc/aliases for linear search:
: No suc
: h file or directory
: eagle3@??? cannot be resolved at this time:
:   failed to open /etc/aliases for linear search: No such file or directory
: 
: I tried creating /etc/aliases and it gave this error:
: LOG: 0 MAIN PANIC
:   system_aliases director: /etc/aliases (lsearch lookup): file mode 0664
: should
: not contain 0020 (check the modemask option)
: eagle3@??? cannot be resolved at this time:
:   /etc/aliases (lsearch lookup): file mode 0664 should not contain 0020
                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: 
: How can I fix this?


Note the bit i emphasized above. Change the permissions on
/etc/aliases to 0644.

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jim knoble
jmknoble@???