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sendmail loop???
Post 9076 by Kelam_Magnus on Monday 22nd of October 2001 04:16:06 PM
10-22-2001
sendmail still mailing deleted user
I have an idea as to your problem.
Either you have some scripts that have the hardcoded username to mail its output to or your sendmail "aliases" file has that user in it.
For the latter, you need to look for a file called "aliases". It is usually in /etc/mail/aliases. Do a "find / -name aliases -print" to find it.
This is the configuration file for how sendmail handles mailing lists based on mail aliases. You may have an entry in there for this user1.
Go ahead and search for an aliases file on your system. On HPUX it is in /etc/mail/aliases.
Once you remove this line from the aliases file, you will need to execute the "newaliases" or sendmail -bi command to update your sendmail configuration.
What may be happening is sendmail still thinks that the user exists because it is in this file even though you deleted them from the system.
Either you have some scripts that have the hardcoded username to mail its output to or your sendmail "aliases" file has that user in it.
For the latter, you need to look for a file called "aliases". It is usually in /etc/mail/aliases. Do a "find / -name aliases -print" to find it.
This is the configuration file for how sendmail handles mailing lists based on mail aliases. You may have an entry in there for this user1.
Go ahead and search for an aliases file on your system. On HPUX it is in /etc/mail/aliases.
Once you remove this line from the aliases file, you will need to execute the "newaliases" or sendmail -bi command to update your sendmail configuration.
What may be happening is sendmail still thinks that the user exists because it is in this file even though you deleted them from the system.
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newaliases
newaliases(1M) System Administration Commands newaliases(1M) NAME
newaliases - rebuild the data base for the mail aliases file SYNOPSIS
newaliases DESCRIPTION
newaliases rebuilds the random access data base for the mail aliases file /etc/mail/aliases. newaliases accepts all the flags that sendmail(1M) accepts. However, most of these flags have no effect, except for the -C option and three of the Processing Options that can be set from a configuration file with the -o option: -C /path/to/alt/config/file Use alternate configuration file. -oAfile Specify possible alias files. -oLn Set the default log level to n. Defaults to 9. -on Validate the RHS of aliases when rebuilding the aliases(4) database. newaliases runs in verbose mode (-v option) automatically. EXAMPLES
Example 1 Running the newaliases Command The following command runs newaliases on an alias file different from the /etc/mail/aliases default in sendmail(1M): example% newaliases -oA/path/to/alternate/alias/file EXIT STATUS
newaliases returns an exit status describing what it did. The codes are defined in /usr/include/sysexits.h. EX_OK Successful completion on all addresses. EX_NOUSER User name not recognized. EX_UNAVAILABLE Catchall. Necessary resources were not available. EX_SYNTAX Syntax error in address. EX_SOFTWARE Internal software error, including bad arguments. EX_OSERR Temporary operating system error, such as "cannot fork". EX_NOHOST Host name not recognized. EX_TEMPFAIL Message could not be sent immediately, but was queued. FILES
/etc/aliases Symbolic link to /etc/mail/aliases /etc/mail/aliases.pag /etc/mail/aliases.dir ndbm files maintained by newaliases /etc/mail/aliases.db Berkeley DataBase file maintained by newaliases ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWsndmu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
sendmail(1M), aliases(4), attributes(5) SunOS 5.11 14 Sep 2001 newaliases(1M)