Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:37:32 +0200 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> To: Alexander Leidinger <netchild@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@FreeBSD.org>, sahil@tandon.net, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: has Postfix new location of aliases.db? Message-ID: <4A27B1FC.6030904@quip.cz> In-Reply-To: <20090604130638.17461dkh10lqyhgk@webmail.leidinger.net> References: <4A279C92.4020305@quip.cz> <20090604135318.0178eb66@it.buh.tecnik93.com> <20090604130638.17461dkh10lqyhgk@webmail.leidinger.net>
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Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@FreeBSD.org> (from Thu, 4 Jun 2009 > 13:53:18 +0300): > >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >> 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 >>> 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 >>> /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 >>> 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` >> >> >> I got bitten by this also, but I though it was only my lack of >> attention. > > > It seems it is creating the .db in the directory where the symlink is > pointing to, instead in the directory where the symlink is (I assume > the original poster used his previous config without changing the alias > stuff). I haven't found something related in the postfix changelog. > Concerned people should maybe ask on the postfix ML if this is intended > or not. I have dozen of servers with Postfix, so I tried it on another server with older Postfix version. This is the result after `newaliases` command root@roxy ~/# ls -al /etc/aliases* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 12 Feb 9 2008 /etc/aliases -> mail/aliases -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 12288 Jun 4 13:25 /etc/aliases.db root@roxy ~/# ls -al /etc/mail/aliases* -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1952 Jun 4 13:25 /etc/mail/aliases As you can see, file /etc/mail/aliases was modified (target of symlink) and then aliases.db was generated by `newaliases` command as /etc/aliases.db Above is with postfix-2.5.6,1 on FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Fri May 1 08:49:13 UTC 2009 GENERIC i386 This is with new postfix-2.6.1,1: # postconf -d | grep aliases alias_database = hash:/etc/mail/aliases alias_maps = hash:/etc/mail/aliases newaliases_path = /usr/local/bin/newaliases And this is with older postfix-2.5.6,1: # postconf -d | grep aliases alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases There is definitely incompatible change in defaults :o( Miroslav Lachman
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