[Mailman-Users] Password frustration - 2.1b3

[G. Armour Van Horn]

Well, at the time I had a permissions issue. So I chowned the whole tree to
mailman:mailman, and went back and did "config.status" and "make install" to ratify
it. Then I did a couple of other little things I had overlooked in the INSTALL file.
Nothing is being logged in the mailman/logs to speak of, certainly none of my test
messages.

I discovered from the /var/log/maillog file that I had a problem with my aliases, and
came to figure out that I was editing /etc/postfix/aliases but newaliases was using
the /etc/aliases file to create an aliases.db file I now have added all the correct
aliases (from bin/genaliases) to the /etc/aliases file, run newaliases, and just in
case, copied both to /etc/postfix/.

Here's the maillog tail from my last attempt to post:


     Oct  9 02:25:41 virtuoso postfix/smtpd[1487]: 8702E2D7B2:
     client=mailout.whidbey.net[209.166.64.124]
     Oct  9 02:25:41 virtuoso postfix/cleanup[1488]: 8702E2D7B2:
     message-id=<3DA3F63C.6D2DCC90 at whidbey.com>
     Oct  9 02:25:42 virtuoso postfix/smtpd[1487]: disconnect from
     mailout.whidbey.net[209.166.64.124]
     Oct  9 02:25:42 virtuoso postfix/qmgr[841]: 8702E2D7B2:
     from=<vanhorn at whidbey.com>, size=1258, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
     Oct  9 02:25:42 virtuoso postfix/local[1490]: fatal: open database
     /etc/postfix/aliases.db: Invalid argument
     Oct  9 02:25:43 virtuoso postfix/qmgr[841]: warning: premature end-of-input
     from private/local socket while reading input attribute name
     Oct  9 02:25:43 virtuoso postfix/qmgr[841]: warning: private/local socket:
     malformed response
     Oct  9 02:25:43 virtuoso postfix/qmgr[841]: warning: transport local failure
     -- see a previous warning/fatal/panic logfile record for the problem
     description
     Oct  9 02:25:43 virtuoso postfix/master[823]: warning: process
     /usr/libexec/postfix/local pid 1490 exit status 1
     Oct  9 02:25:43 virtuoso postfix/master[823]: warning:
     /usr/libexec/postfix/local: bad command startup -- throttling

Incidentally, this message has not been bounced.

I have to get on a plane in a few hours, and would like not to leave the system in
this state for the next week!

Van



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