Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 12:36:26 +0100 From: "Martin Hudec (webmail)" <corwin@aeternal.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: postfix - fatal: open database /etc/aliases.db: Invalid argument Message-ID: <20040324111547.M49899@aeternal.net>
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Hello all, Today I have installed on my desktop (with 5.2.1-p3 FreeBSD) postfix (as replacement for sendmail, rc.conf now has sendmail_enable set to NONE) with tls,db41,sasl2, and I have configured it as I always do (only difference is relayhost which is set to another server in my local network and newaliases_path which on my 4.9 FreeBSD goes to /usr/bin/newaliases). Also I used newaliases to create aliases.db. After I tried telnet localhost 25, but no banner showed up.. and postfix went throttling.. Yesterday I did the same installation of postfix on one machine with 4.9 FreeBSD and all was fine. Please can anyone direct me on how to fix this mess? Thank you, Martin In /var/log/maillog I found following: Mar 24 12:25:17 pleiades postfix/postfix-script: stopping the Postfix mail system Mar 24 12:25:17 pleiades postfix/master[7578]: terminating on signal 15 Mar 24 12:25:19 pleiades sendmail[7597]: alias database /etc/mail/aliases rebuilt by corwin Mar 24 12:25:19 pleiades sendmail[7597]: /etc/mail/aliases: 25 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 256 bytes total Mar 24 12:25:22 pleiades postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system Mar 24 12:25:22 pleiades postfix/master[7643]: daemon started -- version 2.0.19 Mar 24 12:25:32 pleiades postfix/smtpd[7648]: fatal: open database /etc/aliases.db: Invalid argument Mar 24 12:25:33 pleiades postfix/master[7643]: warning: process /usr/local/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 7648 exit status 1 Mar 24 12:25:33 pleiades postfix/master[7643]: warning: /usr/local/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling postconf shows about aliases this: alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases newaliases_path = /usr/local/bin/newaliases properties of /etc/aliases* -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1591 Mar 24 10:03 aliases lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 20 Mar 24 10:13 aliases.db -> /etc/mail/aliases.db and /etc/mail/aliases.db has -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 65536 Mar 24 12:25 aliases.db uname -a FreeBSD pleiades.aeternal.net 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3 #1: Thu Mar 18 16:57:31 CET 2004 corwin@pleiades.aeternal.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PLEIADES i386 -- aEternal.net WebMail (http://mail.aeternal.net)
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