That is strange that your /etc/aliases is owned by mailman. Dunno what is going on there. Something looks awry there.
The soft link I made to the target: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root mailman 29 Jul 12 00:15 /etc/mailman/aliases -> /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases On Fri, July 13, 2007 6:48 am, Hydro John wrote: > > Sorry, I set this up so long ago, I don't remember the basic config info... > but I don't see any links? And the aliases file in /etc/aliases is definitely different from /etc/mailman/aliases... not to mention the /etc/aliases.db file being empty: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# ls -la ali* > -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 1512 Mar 23 09:54 aliases > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2914 Mar 23 09:53 aliases.bak > -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 0 Jul 1 18:19 aliases.db > [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# ls -la /etc/mailman/ali* > -rw-rw---- 1 root mailman 4218 May 15 14:50 /etc/mailman/aliases -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 12288 May 15 14:50 /etc/mailman/aliases.db > > Would you mind providing just a bit more info?? Thanks, > j > > > > > Paul-239 wrote: >> Check to see if the soft links are there. I just went through the rmlist >> command yesterday and gave up and did it manually. I should have paid more attention to the obvious errors. I found that my legacy soft links >> were not in /etc/mailmain. I've migrated my data so many times through different OS's, that I messed that up. I think it would work now if I had >> to. >> On Thu, July 12, 2007 10:34 pm, Hydro John wrote: >>> I get the following error, but I've run check_perms -f and I have no >> errors--- >>> I recall this happening once before, but I cannot recall what the >> problem >>> was. Any suggestions??? >>> -john >>> Jul 13 03:05:25 niflheim postfix/smtpd[20268]: fatal: open database >> /etc/aliases.db: Bad file descriptor >>> Jul 13 03:05:26 niflheim postfix/master[12748]: warning: process >> /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 20268 exit status 1 >>> Jul 13 03:05:26 niflheim postfix/master[12748]: warning: >>> /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling >>> -- >>> View this message in context: >>> http://www.nabble.com/Error---can%27t-open-aliases.db-tf4071765.html#a11571691 >> Sent from the Mailman - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>> ------------------------------------------------------ >>> Mailman-Users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> 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/unix%40bikesn4x4s.com Security Policy: >>> http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp >> ------------------------------------------------------ >> Mailman-Users mailing list >> [email protected] >> 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/lists%40nabble.com Security Policy: >> http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Error---can%27t-open-aliases.db-tf4071765.html#a11577087 Sent from the Mailman - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users mailing list > [email protected] > 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/unix%40bikesn4x4s.com > > Security Policy: > http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] 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
