I put the logs there for you to see so it got expanded. Just gotta read man... gotta read! =]
the problem was that two newaliases existed on the system, and one of them was wrong, and my path settings meant the wrong one was getting called. WHY this happened I don't know, but after 4 days of searching through the internet and not finding anything and being forced to use gmail's interface, I couldn't care less. It works finally, and I'm happy. And hopefully these messages will show up in someone's searches if they encounter the same problem since it seemed that everyone, everywhere, under every circumstance that this error would show up, no one thought that there would be two newaliases on the same system. So if I was able to make that happen, there's gotta be someone else out there who did it too hehe. On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:51 AM, Victor Duchovni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 11:33:28PM -0500, v0id null wrote: > >> Tried to rebuild aliases.db with postalias, nada >> Tried BDB v4.2 and v4.1, nada > > Please expand "nada" into a meaningful english sentence. Usually "invalid > argument" in this context means that the ".db" file is not a compatible > database built with the same version of Berkeley DB. So either "postalias" > is not from the same Postfix version as "smtpd", or you are not providing > sufficient detail to expose the real problem. > >> FreeBSD 6.3 >> Postfix v2.5.4 >> bdb 4.1.25 >> >> Maillog: >> Nov 18 23:43:01 sloshed postfix/smtpd[60929]: fatal: open database >> /etc/aliases.db: Invalid argument >> Nov 18 23:43:02 sloshed postfix/master[54129]: warning: process >> /usr/local/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 60929 exit status 1 >> Nov 18 23:43:02 sloshed postfix/master[54129]: warning: >> /usr/local/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling > > -- > Viktor. > > Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. > Please do not ignore the "Reply-To" header. > > To unsubscribe from the postfix-users list, visit > http://www.postfix.org/lists.html or click the link below: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > If my response solves your problem, the best way to thank me is to not > send an "it worked, thanks" follow-up. If you must respond, please put > "It worked, thanks" in the "Subject" so I can delete these quickly. >
