Hi, Actually this is probably the fourth or fifth time I am revisiting "Chapter 6." But I seem to be making better progress now than in my previous attempts. I am at the part where I am trying to make sure data/aliases* have the correct ownership, GID, etc. When I issue "genaliases" it seems to work...at least I get the command prompt back with no reported errors. Then, I try to do "chown mailman:mailman..." and am receiving the error message "chown: cannot access 'data/aliases*' : No such file or directory" I should point out in my installation the path to the mailman bin is /usr/lib/mailman/bin in case that makes any difference. But I thought by running the "genaliases" (from the mailman "bin" directory) the script would create the aliases for me??? Obviously I am mistaken...but what am I doing wrong now???? Thanks!
> Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:09:36 -0700> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL > PROTECTED]; [email protected]> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] alias > question...> > Dov Oxenberg wrote:> > >It has to do with postfix not being > able to locate the aliases.db and I am getting lots of these in the syslog:> > >fatal: open database /etc/aliases;hash:/etc/mail/aliases.db: No such file or > directory> > This looks like an error in Postfix's main.cf. It appears you > have> something like> > alias_maps = > dbm:/etc/aliases;hash:/etc/mail/aliases.db> > or possibly it's> > > alias_database = dbm:/etc/aliases;hash:/etc/mail/aliases.db> > In any case, > the rhs should be> > dbm:/etc/aliases, hash:/etc/mail/aliases> > (i.e. the > delimiter between tables is comma and/or whitespace, not> semicolon, and hash > references do not include the .db extension).> > > >In looking through the > files on my machine, I have an aliases.db under /etc as in /etc/aliases.db > and another under /etc/mail/> >If I am interpreti! ng the permissions on these aliases.db files, the one under /etc/mail appears to be associated with a smxx account, which I am guessing is Sendmail? The other one, under the root of /etc is associated with the root user.> >I thought Mailman should have configured aliases for me when I installed it???> >In any event, how can I fix this problem?> > > See <http://www.list.org/mailman-install/node12.html> and the "6.1.1> Integrating Postfix and Mailman" page linked from there.> > -- > Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers,> San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan> ------------------------------------------------------ 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
