On 11/11/2011 1:30 PM, Bernard T. Higonnet wrote: > Hello, > > Here is the system: > > freebsd2.higonnet.net 8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #0: Thu Feb 17 > 02:41:51 UTC 2011 > r...@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 > > I have just built postfix from source > > Nov 11 20:12:41 freebsd2 postfix/master[64285]: reload -- version > 2.8.7, configuration /usr/local/etc/postfix > Nov 11 20:13:08 freebsd2 postfix/qmgr[64852]: warning: problem > talking to service rewrite: Operation timed out > Nov 11 20:13:14 freebsd2 postfix/cleanup[64928]: fatal: open > database /usr/local/etc/postfix/canonical.db: Inappropriate file > type or format > > > > The main.cf file has been copied without change so far from a > working version 2.7.1 running under FreeBSD 8.1
When you copy postfix setup files, you must then run # postfix upgrade-configuration and # postfix set-permissions When you copy indexed files between systems with different versions of the BDB library, you need to rebuild the files on the new system. Remove the existing unusable *.db files and postmap the input files to create new .db files. -- Noel Jones
