Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 07:23:43 -0400 From: Jerry <gesbbb@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: has Postfix new location of aliases.db? Message-ID: <20090604072343.4ef97951@scorpio> In-Reply-To: <4A279C92.4020305@quip.cz> References: <4A279C92.4020305@quip.cz>
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--Sig_/gRsvR_BNR0uY1NEVK+T0nAu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:06:10 +0200 Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> wrote: >Was something changed in Postfix defaults? >After upgrade from postfix-2.5.6,1 to postfix-2.6.1,1 and restart of=20 >postfix, I got following error in /var/log/maillog > >fatal: open database /etc/mail/aliases.db: No such file or directory > >All previous versions were using /etc/aliases.db, new version expect=20 >/etc/mail/aliases.db > >newaliases command re-generate aliases.db in the new location. > > >root@fido ~/# ls -al /etc/aliases* >lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 12B Feb 24 2008 /etc/aliases@ -> >mail/aliases -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 12K Jan 20 >11:30 /etc/aliases.db > >root@fido ~/# ls -al /etc/mail/aliases* >-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1.7K Oct 22 2008 /etc/mail/aliases > >root@fido ~/# newaliases > >root@fido ~/# ls -al /etc/mail/aliases* >-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1.7K Oct 22 2008 /etc/mail/aliases >-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 12K Jun 4 11:39 /etc/mail/aliases.db > >If this is expected behavior, this should be mentioned in UPDATING. > >machine details: >FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Fri May 1 08:49:13 UTC 2009=20 >root@walker.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > >fresh ports tree updated by `portsnap fetch update`, postfix upgraded >by `portmaster postfix-2.5.6,1` > >Miroslav Lachman 1) Post the output of "postconf -n" 2) Read the documentation: alias_database (default: see "postconf -d" output) The alias databases for local(8) delivery that are updated with "newaliases" or with "sendmail -bi".=20 This is a separate configuration parameter because not all the tables specified with $alias_maps have to be local files.=20 Examples:=20 alias_database =3D hash:/etc/aliases alias_database =3D hash:/etc/mail/aliases 3) You might be better served posting this on the Postfix forum. --=20 Jerry gesbbb@yahoo.com To err is humor. --Sig_/gRsvR_BNR0uY1NEVK+T0nAu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkonrscACgkQBvaKIJWWCO1mEQCeOxe7R+AcC04GRIslj0Bhb3Ef cKcAnjDY61uL/AoZ37xPgk8VaJCXoXS/ =E0SY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/gRsvR_BNR0uY1NEVK+T0nAu--
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