freebsd stable - Jun 2003 - Aliases

Hi,

I am having some trouble with the postfix system.
It says:
postfix/smtpd[90539]: fatal: open database
  /etc/mail/aliases.db: Inappropile type or format
I tried to make aliases in the /etc/mail directory, but it
failed.
What shall I do?

Kov?cs P?ter wrote:
[ ... ]
> I am having some trouble with the postfix system.
> It says:
> postfix/smtpd[90539]: fatal: open database
>   /etc/mail/aliases.db: Inappropile type or format
> I tried to make aliases in the /etc/mail directory, but it
> failed.
Running "makemap" directly on the aliases file doesn't quite work
(*); try using
the "newaliases" command, or whatever the postfix equivalent is.

(*): The aliases map has a "@" key for historical reasons which is
added by
newaliases.

-- 
-Chuck

Kov?cs P?ter <kovacspeter2@freemail.hu> 15 lines of wisdom
included:
> Hi,
> 
> I am having some trouble with the postfix system.
> It says:
> postfix/smtpd[90539]: fatal: open database
>   /etc/mail/aliases.db: Inappropile type or format
> I tried to make aliases in the /etc/mail directory, but it
> failed.
> What shall I do?
postalias hash:/etc/mail/aliases

Depending on your system, hash may or may not be supported. See
``postconf -m'' for the list of supported types.

newaliases may also work, however make sure that this is the postfix
newaliases command and not the sendmail one.

Also, this is a postfix question, and as such should really be
directed to the postfix users mailing list @

	postfix-users@postfix.org

see www.postfix.org for more information.

Regards,
-- 
Philip Reynolds                      | RFC Networks Ltd.
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