----- Original Message ----- From: "John Dennis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 11:46 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: >> Bill Landry wrote: >> > >> >Jun 6 10:52:07 lists postfix/local[20108]: warning: cannot find alias >> >database owner for hash:/usr/local/mailman/data/aliases(0,34100) > >> In any case, this appears to be a postfix configuration issue. A google >> search for "cannot find alias database owner" turns up two links to a >> postfix module alias.c, the relevant piece of which is: > > I don't think this is a postfix configuration issue, but rather a > problem with user lookup's. What the code in question is doing is > getting the user id (uid) of the owner of of the alias file and then > mapping it to an account. For some reason that's failing. On the machine > that postfix is running on you should verify the mailman account exists. > (what does the command "id mailman" return?). id mailman uid=41(mailman) gid=41(mailman) groups=41(mailman) > Are you running postfix > and mailman on the same machine. Yes. > Do you have any of the files on an NFS mount? No. > It seems very odd that ls -l prints out mailman as the owner but > postfix can't perform the same lookup. Are you running a NSCD (Name > Service Cache Daemon)? No. > If so, maybe the cache isn't refreshed. Have you > tried restarting postfix? Yes, many times. > Is mailman in /etc/shadow on the machine > postfix is running on? grep mailman /etc/shadow mailman:!!:12327:::::: Bill ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp