From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 2 7: 3:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com (roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com [66.66.72.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 719DC37B402 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 07:03:20 -0800 (PST) Received: by roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B5466901A4E; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 10:03:10 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 10:03:10 -0500 From: mpd To: "J.S." Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Postfix error Message-ID: <20020202100310.A47381@rochester.rr.com> References: <20020202155634.754b05b1.johann@broadpark.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020202155634.754b05b1.johann@broadpark.no>; from johann@broadpark.no on Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 03:56:34PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 03:56:34PM +0100, J.S. wrote: > Feb 2 15:03:21 ninja postfix/local[19214]: fatal: open database /etc/aliases.db: No such file or directory > > This message has bothered me for hours now. There is an `aliases' symlink in /etc but not an aliases.db. > > What went wrong? Did you ever run postalias(1)? The aliases you've set up in /etc/aliases need to be put into a database (aliases.db.) postalias will do this. mike -- ___________________________________________________________ "AND IN CONCLUSION TECHNOLOGY CHANGES THE FLAVOR OF ARCTIC CIRCLE CANDY AND MAKES MILK GO SOUR!!!" - Mr. Nutty from "A TOWN MEETING" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message