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

2007-07-13 Thread Todd Zullinger
Hydro John wrote: > Frustraiting! No aliases file in /var/lib/mailman/data/... it must > be that the file in /etc/mailmain/ is the one (or at least it looks > like the one) that the service should be using... It sounds like you're using a Red Hat or Fedora packaged mailman. In those distros, mai

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

2007-07-13 Thread Mark Sapiro
Hydro John wrote: > >Frustraiting! No aliases file in /var/lib/mailman/data/... it must be that >the file in /etc/mailmain/ is the one (or at least it looks like the one) >that the service should be using... In a normal installation with Mailman/Postfix integration enabled via MTA = 'Postfix'

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

2007-07-13 Thread Hydro John
Frustraiting! No aliases file in /var/lib/mailman/data/... it must be that the file in /etc/mailmain/ is the one (or at least it looks like the one) that the service should be using... Just a side note. I started python from the command line, and tried to 'from Mailman import *' and there is no

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

2007-07-13 Thread 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

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

2007-07-13 Thread Paul
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 Joh

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

2007-07-13 Thread Hydro John
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# ls -la ali* -rw-rw-r-- 1 m

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

2007-07-12 Thread Paul
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

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

2007-07-12 Thread Hydro John
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