Re: postfix - fatal: open database /etc/aliases.db: Invalid argument
Hi, well newaliases in /usr/local/bin is alias for /usr/local/sbin/sendmail :). pleiades# ll /usr/local/bin/ | grep newaliases lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 32 Mar 24 11:33 newaliases - ../../../usr/local/sbin/sendmail and for those FreeBSD 4.x systems, yes I use postfix with aliases db as shown here: uname -a: FreeBSD amber.aeternal.net 4.9-STABLE FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #0: Sat Mar 20 21:30:02 CET 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/AMBER i386 postconf | grep aliases: alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases And all is working.. but postfix is version 2.0.18 and not 2.0.19 as on my current 5.2.1 machine. Thank you very much for your help :) On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 02:03:18PM +0100, Remko Lodder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Do you use postfix there? and use the aliases db? newaliases_path = /usr/local/bin/newaliases -- So you should use that one... and/or alias the current one to the one in /usr/local/bin ... -- =-- : :. kind regards :.. Martin Hudec :.: :.: :m: +421.907.303393 :.: :@: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :.: :w: http://www.aeternal.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: postfix - fatal: open database /etc/aliases.db: Invalid argument
Hi Martin, Martin Hudec (webmail) wrote: and /etc/mail/aliases.db has -rw-r- 1 root wheel 65536 Mar 24 12:25 aliases.db I think that your problem is with the permissions of that file. I think that you perhaps should use chmod o+r aliases.db in the /etc/mail directory, or chgrp postdrop (or whatever group you use) aliases.db in the /etc/mail directory. And then retry :-) cheers -- -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder Elvandar.org/DSINet.org www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch community for helping newcomers on the hackerscene ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: postfix - fatal: open database /etc/aliases.db: Invalid argument
Hi Remko, i tried that too.. but no success :(. -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 65536 Mar 24 12:25 aliases.db anyway thanks :) Martin On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 13:12:51 +0100, Remko Lodder wrote -rw-r- 1 root wheel 65536 Mar 24 12:25 aliases.db I think that your problem is with the permissions of that file. I think that you perhaps should use chmod o+r aliases.db in the /etc/mail directory, or chgrp postdrop (or whatever group you use) aliases.db in the /etc/mail directory. And then retry :-) -- aEternal.net WebMail (http://mail.aeternal.net) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: postfix - fatal: open database /etc/aliases.db: Invalid argument
Hi Martin
Martin Hudec (webmail) wrote:
Hi Remko,
i tried that too.. but no success :(.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 65536 Mar 24 12:25 aliases.db
anyway thanks :)
Martin
I think i found the issue:
Mar 24 12:25:19 pleiades sendmail[7597]: alias database /etc/mail/aliases
rebuilt by corwin
Mar 24 12:25:19 pleiades sendmail[7597]: /etc/mail/aliases: 25 aliases,
longest 10 bytes, 256 bytes total
Mar 24 12:25:22 pleiades postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix
mail system
Mar 24 12:25:22 pleiades postfix/master[7643]: daemon started -- version
2.0.19
Mar 24 12:25:32 pleiades postfix/smtpd[7648]: fatal: open database
/etc/aliases.db: Invalid argument
U use newaliases in the sendmail package to re-generate the database
{right?}.
To my best knowledge postfix uses postmap... /usr/local/sbin/postmap (or
whereever your postmap command is located) /path/to/aliases, perhaps it
can open it after that action...
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Re: postfix - fatal: open database /etc/aliases.db: Invalid argument
Hi,
thank you :) now it works..
I always used newaliases as:
newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases
to generate aliases.db, as I said on my other FreeBSD 4.x systems I have never
experienced problems so far.
I used postmap hash:aliases, it complained for : signs, so I removed them.
Should also I change that newaliases symlink to /usr/local/sbin/postmap (now
it is linked to /usr/sbin/mailwrapper)?
cheers,
Martin
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 13:32:41 +0100, Remko Lodder wrote
U use newaliases in the sendmail package to re-generate the database
{right?}.
To my best knowledge postfix uses postmap... /usr/local/sbin/postmap
(or whereever your postmap command is located) /path/to/aliases,
perhaps it can open it after that action...
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Re: postfix - fatal: open database /etc/aliases.db: Invalid argument
Heya Martin, Martin Hudec (webmail) wrote: Hi, thank you :) now it works.. Good :-) I always used newaliases as: newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases to generate aliases.db, as I said on my other FreeBSD 4.x systems I have never experienced problems so far. Do you use postfix there? and use the aliases db? I used postmap hash:aliases, it complained for : signs, so I removed them. Should also I change that newaliases symlink to /usr/local/sbin/postmap (now it is linked to /usr/sbin/mailwrapper)? i have: #alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases # The alias_database parameter specifies the alias database(s) that # are built with newaliases or sendmail -bi. This is a separate # configuration parameter, because alias_maps (see above) may specify #alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases # newaliases_path: The full pathname of the Postfix newaliases command. # This is the Sendmail-compatible command to build alias databases. newaliases_path = /usr/local/bin/newaliases -- So you should use that one... and/or alias the current one to the one in /usr/local/bin ... Hope this helps, Cheers! Kind regards, Remko Lodder Elvandar.org/DSINet.org www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch community for helping newcomers on the hackerscene ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
