[Mailman-Users] Recovering the virtual-mailman file

[Eric Pretorious]

On Monday 27 September 2004 12:28 am, Jim Tittsler wrote:
>On Sep 27, 2004, at 05:10, Eric Pretorious wrote:
>> I ran `bin/genaliases` this morning and it emptied my
>> data/virtual-mailman file. Is there any way to recover this file?
>
>bin/genaliases should be able to build it for you.
>
>(Do you have MTA='Postfix' and POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS set
>correctly for your configuration in your mm_cfg.py file?  If you are
>using the Postifix style virtual domains, make sure the domain names
>match those you've added in your mm_cfg.py.  See the README.POSTFIX
>documentation.)

Hi, Jim:

Yes - the settings are correct. (Mailman has been handling lists for three 
different virtual domains with Postfix for a while now.)

`bin/genaliases` destroyed the data/virtual-mailman file so now when I run 
`bin/genaliases` it complains...

>mailman # bin/genaliases
>postmap: fatal: open /usr/local/mailman/data/virtual-mailman.db: Permission 
denied
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "bin/genaliases", line 116, in ?
>    main()
>  File "bin/genaliases", line 106, in main
>    MTA.create(mlist, nolock=True, quiet=quiet)
>  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 232, in create
>    _update_maps()
>  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 60, in _update_maps
>    raise RuntimeError, msg % (vcmd, status, errstr)
>RuntimeError: command failed:
>/usr/sbin/postmap /usr/local/mailman/data/virtual-mailman (status: 1, 
>Operation not permitted)  

-- 
Eric P.,
Sunnyvale, CA