Andy Cravens wrote: >We are running mailman 2.1.9 on Solaris 10. This afternoon we had a >strange problem that we have never seen before. The mailman aliases >file located at /opt/mailman/data/aliases was somehow truncated and >contained only a dozen of our 173 lists. Almost all of our list traffic >was rejected with "User unknown in local recipient table" as a result. >The problem was easily remedied by running the genaliases script. > >I can find no reason for this one-time occurrence (I hope it was a >one-time occurrence). I have checked the server and found no hardware >or system errors. I have checked all the mailman logs and have found >nothing that correlates to the date/time of when the problem started.
Sorry for not replying sooner. This got buried :( I assume this is Postfix, right? So the implication is that not only was /opt/mailman/data/aliases truncated, but that the aliases were also missing from /opt/mailman/data/aliases.db which further implies that it's more than a few sectors mysteriously disappearing from a file, since the aliases would have to disappear from /opt/mailman/data/aliases and then postalias or equivalent be run. Mailman could do this. If someone manually edited /opt/mailman/data/aliases and in so doing removed or altered the # STANZA END: somelist line but not the corresponding # STANZA START: somelist line. Then if someone (perhaps years) later (if genaliases wasn't run in between) deletes the somelist list, Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py will delete all the aliases from somelist through the end of the file. I think this is too dangerous. I'll fix it for 2.2 so it won't delete past the next STANZA START no matter what. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9