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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!news.u.washington.edu!cpac.washington.edu!joshua From: joshua@cpac.washington.edu (Joshua Geller) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: sendmail problems Followup-To: poster Date: 10 Mar 93 11:48:19 GMT Organization: Institute for the Study of Ancient Science Lines: 12 Distribution: world Message-ID: <JOSHUA.93Mar10034819@bailey.cpac.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bailey.cpac.washington.edu I am trying to set up sendmail on a pc running 386bsd, with mixed results. every time I send mail I get this error message: Cannot open database: /etc/aliases.db. Invalid argument. now, I have edited sendmail.cf so it should be looking for an aliases file named /etc/aliases (which does exist; I put it there myself). when this message first came up, I cp'ed it to /etc/aliases.db, with no result. what gives? josh