Date:  Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:08:46 -0700
From:  "Ken Marcus - Precision Web Hosting, Inc." <kenmarcus (at mark) precisionweb.net>
Subject:  [coba-e:07279] Re: Cannot create Vsites Anymore [Solved]
To:  <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
Message-Id:  <035b01c6e329$24c7b570$6700a8c0@OfficeKen>
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> >>This has been my major problem all along.
>>
>>Thanks for the solution.
>>
>>coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org writes:
>>>Hi Brett,
>>>
>>>> Restarting sendmail from shell gave me an error relating to access db 
>>>> so I started
>>>> there. There is more detail in the messages or maillog, which points to 
>>>> the php
>>>file(s)
>>>> requesting the operation, can't remember offhand.
>>>
>>>Jepp, I got this error too yesterday and chowned access.db to root:root.
>>>But that wasn't enough.
>>>
>>>> Sorry for the lack of memory, I rush through these issues nowadays with 
>>>> little regard
>>>> for documenting them anymore.
>>>
>>>> Either (I prefer the first, "seems" safer):
>>>>
>>>> chown root:root /etc/mail/access.db
>>>> chown root:root /etc/mail/virtusertable.db
>>>
>>>This worked great! Thank you. I needed to change the ownership of
>>>virtusertable.db as well.
>>>
>>>Are there any more who had problem with this after 'The Big Update'? I
>>>mean, neither I nor Brett have deliberitely changed the ownership to
>>>smmsp:root on these files?
>>>
>>>Great work Brett. Your memory served you well! :P
>>>
>>>/Kristian
>>>


From: "Steve Davis" <steve (at mark) zio.com>

> Prematurely declared success.
>
> This did not work, all my alias email accounts are still declared unknown.
>
> Steve



The file ownership / permissions on my systems are below:
-rw-r--r--   1 root  root     903 Sep 28 08:38 access
-rw-r-----   1 smmsp root   12288 Sep 28 08:38 access.db

-rw-r--r--   1 root  root    1379 Mar 28  2006 aliases
-rw-r-----   1 smmsp smmsp  12288 Sep 28 08:36 aliases.db

-rw-r--r--   1 root  root   73711 Sep 28 08:38 virtusertable
-rw-r-----   1 smmsp root  176128 Sep 28 08:38 virtusertable.db
-rw-r--r--   1 root  root   66606 Sep 28 08:38 virtusertable.owm

The permissions on the mail directory itself are:
ls -ald /etc/mail
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Sep 28 08:38 /etc/mail



I am not having any problems.




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Ken Marcus
Precision Web Hosting, Inc.
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