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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: missing /etc/aliases file Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:42:46 +0200 From: Kartagis kartagis@kunduz.org To: Keith Roberts keith@karsites.net References: D2B43561-0BAD-440F-97C0-712616E1E560@cox.net 200612210856.40994.ml@awinkelmann.de 64A0FED1-F20E-4D90-A0E9-0FE8A67DC0EC@cox.net 20061221182636.GM8372@piias899.ms.com 6F42AC60-7A86-4ABE-BC15-2200C347472A@cox.net 2f8462f30612211433v63cfbf1eu8c1bdb56ebe32e6a@mail.gmail.com 317AC147-BEB2-4365-9DAE-719A8CD1658E@cox.net 2f8462f30612211525t35664570m5c1ebdb102566309@mail.gmail.com Pine.LNX.4.64.0612220702470.29122@karsites.net
Keith Roberts wrote:
Hi all. I've been getting the following errors on FC6 when trying to start postfix:
The following error occured after a clean installation of postfix and fetchmail.
part contents of /var/log/maillog:
Dec 22 07:08:16 fedora-laptop postfix/postalias[3132]: fatal: open /etc/aliases: No such file or directory
Dec 22 07:08:18 fedora-laptop postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system
Dec 22 07:08:18 fedora-laptop postfix/master[3178]: daemon started -- version 2.3.3, configuration /etc/postfix
Dec 22 07:09:43 fedora-laptop postfix/smtpd[3198]: fatal: open database /etc/aliases.db: No such file or directory
Dec 22 07:09:44 fedora-laptop postfix/master[3178]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 3198 exit status 1
Dec 22 07:09:44 fedora-laptop postfix/master[3178]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling
The problem appears to be no /etc/aliases text file in the said directory, /etc.
Try *find /etc/ -name aliases* and see where its exact location is
I see that postfix will actually generate the /etc/aliases.db file from /etc/aliases, on each startup of postfix.
That's incorrect. You need to run *newaliases* each time you edit aliases file and a new aliases.db will be generated.
My main question is where does the text file /etc/aliases originate from?
Is it part of the standard Linux distribution?
Or is it generated somehow for each specific Linux installation? Also, Can I use the /etc/aliases text file on my laptop for my main machine, if one does not exist there after installing postfix on it?
I need to know that the postfix installation will complete successfully with FC6 on my main machine, before installing FC6 there, in place of SuSE 10.1.
TIA
Keith Roberts
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