On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Noel Jones <njo...@megan.vbhcs.org> wrote:
> On 4/6/2010 11:39 AM, Robert Lopez wrote:
>>
>> For some time I have been tracking changes to the access table with RCS.
>> Each time a change is made the "ci access" results in the removal of
>> the access file from /etc/postfix and leaving the
>> /etc/postfix.access.db file.
>>
>> Today I tried to check in a cidr table named cidr-ip. Upon check-in
>> (and restart of postfix) I got this message in the maillog file:
>> Apr 6 10:12:57 mg05 postfix/smtpd[4632]: fatal: open
>> /etc/postfix/cidr-ip: No such file or directory
>>
>> A "postmap -q<any-pattern-in-file> cidr-ip" returns the rest of the
>> matching line correctly.
>> An strace of "postmap -q<any-pattern> cidr-ip" shows it is the
>> cidr-ip.db file that is being read.
>>
>> Why does postfix not like the source file being removed from the
>> /etc/postfix directory?
>
> cidr tables are plain-text tables. The source file is the live table data.
> The .db file is your mistake; cidr tables should not be indexed with
> postmap.
That surprises me.
The man page seems to me to indicate otherwise.
My confusion is with this sentence:
"These tables are usually in dbm or db format."
which is from the Description portion below...
CIDR_TABLE(5) CIDR_TABLE(5)
NAME
cidr_table - format of Postfix CIDR tables
SYNOPSIS
postmap -q "string" cidr:/etc/postfix/filename
postmap -q - cidr:/etc/postfix/filename <inputfile
DESCRIPTION
The Postfix mail system uses optional lookup tables.
These tables are usually in dbm or db format. Alterna-
tively, lookup tables can be specified in CIDR (Classless
Inter-Domain Routing) form. In this case, each input is
compared against a list of patterns. When a match is
found, the corresponding result is returned and the search
is terminated.
To find out what types of lookup tables your Postfix sys-
tem supports use the "postconf -m" command.
To test lookup tables, use the "postmap -q" command as
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>
> -- Noel Jones
>
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Robert Lopez
Unix Systems Administrator
Central New Mexico Community College (CNM)
525 Buena Vista SE
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106
