[Novalug] sendmail error

Jon LaBadie novalugml at jgcomp.com
Thu Oct 29 20:39:47 EDT 2009


On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 05:01:29PM -0700, Aaron Porter wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Jon LaBadie <novalugml at jgcomp.com> wrote:
> >  SYSERR(root): Cannot open hash database /etc/mail/authinfo.db: Invalid argument
> >
> > The same error in in the messages logfile but with no additional info.
> > Any ideas what might be the "Invalid argument".
> 
> Did you create a proper hash file or is this just a raw ascii file
> with your auth info in it?
> To clarify, you probably should have a afile named authinfo that's the
> ascii uid/pw pair for verizon, then you'd run `makemap hash
> authinfo.db < authinfo`

Yes, authinfo.db is the hash database file.  Only difference in the command
line was I omitted the ".db" as makemap automatically adds it to the output.

jl
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