[Mailman-Users] Postfix has problems with Mailman aliases database

[Rob Ellis]

On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 01:32:35PM -0400, malgosia askanas (staff) wrote:
> > You haven't run the postmap command to generate the alias database.
> > Use the following:
> > postmap hash:/etc/aliases
> > postmap hash:/var/chroot/htdocs/mailman/data/aliases
> 
> I am sorry to say that this didn't change my situation.  I did as you suggested
> and then did a postfix reload, but I still get the same complaints:
> 
>   Jun  9 13:28:21 polyhedra postfix/local[18087]: fatal: open database /etc/aliases.db: Invalid argument
>   Jun  9 13:28:22 polyhedra postfix/master[301]: warning: process /usr/local/libexec/local pid 18087 exit status 1
>   Jun  9 13:28:22 polyhedra postfix/master[301]: warning: /usr/local/libexec/local: bad command startup -- throttling
> 
> The two aliases files now are of the same format, both are
> Berkeley DB 1.85 (Hash, version 2, native byte-order)

you want to use 'postalias', not 'postmap' ->

  postalias hash:/etc/aliases hash:/var/chroot/htdocs/mailman/data/aliases

- rob