From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 25 07:55:55 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 1D62016A4CE for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 07:55:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from fwall.in.markiza.sk (fwall.in.markiza.sk [62.168.76.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D57B443D2D for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 07:55:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from corwin@pleiades.aeternal.net) Received: from pleiades.aeternal.net (webcom.in.markiza.sk [192.168.13.1]) by fwall.in.markiza.sk (Postfix) with ESMTP id E644822F8D; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 14:17:36 +0100 (CET) Received: from pleiades.aeternal.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pleiades.aeternal.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5F6617025; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 14:17:49 +0100 (CET) Received: (from corwin@localhost) by pleiades.aeternal.net (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i2ODHiAr014407; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 14:17:44 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from corwin) Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 14:17:44 +0100 From: Martin Hudec To: Remko Lodder Message-ID: <20040324131744.GA14315@pleiades.aeternal.net> References: <20040324111547.M49899@aeternal.net> <40617B43.3000504@elvandar.org> <20040324121814.M82008@aeternal.net> <40617FE9.4080803@elvandar.org> <20040324124821.M18743@aeternal.net> <40618716.80808@elvandar.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40618716.80808@elvandar.org> X-Copyright: (C) 2004 Martin Hudec X-Operating-System: FreeBSD pleiades.aeternal.net 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3 i386 X-PGP-Key: http://www.aeternal.net/corwin_aeternal.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 Reply-To: Martin Hudec List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 15:55:55 -0000 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 corwin@amber.aeternal.net:/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 (remko@elvandar.org) 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 :.: :@: corwin@aeternal.net :.: :w: http://www.aeternal.net