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Evgeny
Asked: 2009-07-30 10:08:45 +0800 CST

newaliases.postfix hangs

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... related to a previous question about trouble running postfix on Centos 5.2(Final)

Looks like postfix relies on aliases.db which is built by newaliases.postfix command

When I run newaliases.postfix it just hangs indefinitely. I have found some tips, but they weren't helpful (I've changed /etc/hosts and /etc/sysconfig/network accordingly to no effect)

Running strace newaliases.postfix shows this

...
close(4)                                = 0
munmap(0x2b9bb210c000, 4096)            = 0
read(0,  <unfinished ...>

Apparently it's trying to read from standard input but never gets any input.

Am I supposed to feed something to newaliases?

When I try newaliases.postfix < /etc/aliases I get

newaliases.postfix: fatal: Recipient addresses must be specified on \
the command line or via the -t option
postfix

2 Answers

  1. you have to put this on console and choose the right MTA (postfix in this case)

    alternatives --config mta

    then run

    newaliases

    this worked for me

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  2. Best Answer

    You shouldn't have to specify newaliases.postfix, it should just be newaliases - but then again, you didn't tell me if you are on FreeBSD, Linux, OS X, or ? What are you running?

    Just the command by itself should digest the file. If it's hanging on the digest then something is horked.

    EDIT:

    Ok, you have /etc/aliases.db now, but postfix is failing to start on CentOS.

    Try this (as root):

    yum upgrade postfix
service postfix restart ; tail -f /var/log/maillog

    When postfix fails to start, it should dump out an error message at the end of the log, and the tail command will show that message for you.

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