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Re: linuxconf -> sendmail errors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robin Atwood)
Sun Oct 25 12:42:59 1998
From: Robin Atwood <robin.atwood@ibm.net>
Reply-To: robin.atwood@ibm.net
To: Red Hat List <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 19:37:53 +0100
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On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Robin Atwood wrote:
>Recently I (foolishly, it seems) installed the linuxconf RPMs and then
>rapidly backed them off when the thing started taking over my system.
>My mail client (kmail) started issuing 'Send Failed' pop-ups and I
>found when I issue 'sendmail -q' I get the error message:
>=09Cannot open hash database /etc/mail/deny: Invalid argument=20
>All the files in /etc/mail are empty and have never been touched by me.=20
>Since ~/deny and ~/deny.db are both zero length I don't think rehahing i=
s the
>answer. Any ideas, you sendmail gurus?
Well, to reply to my own post, I reinstalled the sendmail rpm and the pro=
blem
went away. The ~/deny.db file is no longer empty as distributed by RedHat=
=2E
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Cheers,
-Robin.
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Robin Atwood, Amsterdam, NL =20
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