From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 24 04:51:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A15A16A4CE for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 04:51:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from amber.aeternal.net (amber.in.markiza.sk [62.168.76.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9930F43D54 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 04:51:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from corwin@aeternal.net) Received: from mail.aeternal.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by amber.aeternal.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 795E459C9E for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 13:51:50 +0100 (CET) From: "Martin Hudec (webmail)" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 13:51:50 +0100 Message-Id: <20040324124821.M18743@aeternal.net> In-Reply-To: <40617FE9.4080803@elvandar.org> References: <20040324111547.M49899@aeternal.net> <40617B43.3000504@elvandar.org> <20040324121814.M82008@aeternal.net> <40617FE9.4080803@elvandar.org> X-Mailer: Open WebMail 2.30 20040103 X-OriginatingIP: 192.168.0.7 (corwin) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Subject: Re: postfix - fatal: open database /etc/aliases.db: Invalid argument X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 12:51:36 -0000 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... -- aEternal.net WebMail (http://mail.aeternal.net)