has Postfix new location of aliases.db?

Miroslav Lachman 000.fbsd at quip.cz
Thu Jun 4 10:06:15 UTC 2009


Was something changed in Postfix defaults?
After upgrade from postfix-2.5.6,1 to postfix-2.6.1,1 and restart of 
postfix, I got following error in /var/log/maillog

fatal: open database /etc/mail/aliases.db: No such file or directory

All previous versions were using /etc/aliases.db, new version expect 
/etc/mail/aliases.db

newaliases command re-generate aliases.db in the new location.


root at fido ~/# ls -al /etc/aliases*
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    12B Feb 24  2008 /etc/aliases@ -> mail/aliases
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    12K Jan 20 11:30 /etc/aliases.db

root at fido ~/# ls -al /etc/mail/aliases*
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   1.7K Oct 22  2008 /etc/mail/aliases

root at fido ~/# newaliases

root at fido ~/# ls -al /etc/mail/aliases*
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   1.7K Oct 22  2008 /etc/mail/aliases
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    12K Jun  4 11:39 /etc/mail/aliases.db

If this is expected behavior, this should be mentioned in UPDATING.

machine details:
FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Fri May  1 08:49:13 UTC 2009 
root at walker.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

fresh ports tree updated by `portsnap fetch update`, postfix upgraded by 
`portmaster postfix-2.5.6,1`

Miroslav Lachman


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