>This has caused me no end of problems as well, and I'm not sure how to deal
>with it.. but we really should bring this up on tech-userlevel and come up with
>something reasonable to deal with it.
>One solution I've thought of.. would be to modify sendmail to regenerate
>aliases.db if it notices a zero byte aliases.db on initial startup.  The
>benefit of this is that it would work for all forms of install.

	stock sendmail had a flag to do this (AutoRebuildAliases), but is
	deprecated for security reasons (DoS attack with non-writable
	/etc/aliases.db file, i suppose) and will be removed in the future.
	so i think we should not take this route.

itojun