[Mailman-Users] Error - can't open aliases.db

[Paul]

To find your alias files and ownerships:

ls -lhd `find / -name aliases`


On Fri, July 13, 2007 9:08 am, Paul wrote:
> That is strange that your /etc/aliases is owned by mailman.  Dunno what is
> going on there.  Something looks awry there.
>
> The soft link I made to the target:
>
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root mailman   29 Jul 12 00:15 /etc/mailman/aliases ->
> /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases
>
>
> On Fri, July 13, 2007 6:48 am, Hydro John wrote:
>>
>> Sorry, I set this up so long ago, I don't remember the basic config
>> info...
>> but I don't see any links? And the aliases file in /etc/aliases is
> definitely different from /etc/mailman/aliases... not to mention the
> /etc/aliases.db file being empty:
>>
>> [root at myserver etc]# ls -la ali*
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 1512 Mar 23 09:54 aliases
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root    root    2914 Mar 23 09:53 aliases.bak
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman    0 Jul  1 18:19 aliases.db
>> [root at myserver etc]# ls -la /etc/mailman/ali*
>> -rw-rw---- 1 root    mailman  4218 May 15 14:50 /etc/mailman/aliases
> -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 12288 May 15 14:50 /etc/mailman/aliases.db
>>
>> Would you mind providing just a bit more info?? Thanks,
>> j
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Paul-239 wrote:
>>> Check to see if the soft links are there.  I just went through the
>>> rmlist
>>> command yesterday and gave up and did it manually.  I should have paid
> more attention to the obvious errors.  I found that my legacy soft
> links
>>> were not in /etc/mailmain.  I've migrated my data so many times through
> different OS's, that I messed that up.  I think it would work now if I
> had
>>> to.
>>> On Thu, July 12, 2007 10:34 pm, Hydro John wrote:
>>>> I get the following error, but I've run check_perms -f and I have no
>>> errors---
>>>> I recall this happening once before, but I cannot recall what the
>>> problem
>>>> was. Any suggestions???
>>>> -john
>>>> Jul 13 03:05:25 niflheim postfix/smtpd[20268]: fatal: open database
>>> /etc/aliases.db: Bad file descriptor
>>>> Jul 13 03:05:26 niflheim postfix/master[12748]: warning: process
>>> /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 20268 exit status 1
>>>> Jul 13 03:05:26 niflheim postfix/master[12748]: warning:
>>>> /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling
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