From: david lubell (davidlubell2005gmail.com)
Date: Thu Sep 01 2005 - 07:51:41 CDT

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On 9/1/05, Keith Matthews <postfixfrequentous.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 13:38:06 +0100
> david lubell <davidlubell2005gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > hi, i am having problems using php and sendmail using my freebsd box.
> >
> > i first had errors about libdb.4.2.so <http://libdb.4.2.so> <
> http://libdb.4.2.so> being
> > missing, i have put this file back into the lib directory and these
> > errors no longer appear.
> >
> > doing mailq shows me:
> > postqueue: warning: Mail system is down -- accessing queue directly
> > -Queue ID- --Size-- ----Arrival Time---- -Sender/Recipient-------
> > C30108E48E 28385 Thu Sep 1 02:18:52 root
> > asdskjdyahoo.com
> >
> > C9E888E48F 28385 Thu Sep 1 02:18:52 root
> >
>
> Ok, so postfix is not running. Did you start it ? if you did what does the
> log say about why it stopped?

well postfix is already started apparently. from maillog:

ing
Sep 1 18:23:29 masterblaster postfix/local[73969]: fatal: open database
/etc/aliases.db: Inappropriate file type or format
Sep 1 18:23:30 masterblaster postfix/master[72634]: warning: process
/usr/local/libexec/postfix/local pid 73969 exit status 1
Sep 1 18:23:30 masterblaster postfix/master[72634]: warning:
/usr/local/libexec/postfix/local: bad command startup -- throttling
Sep 1 18:23:34 masterblaster postfix/smtpd[73970]: fatal: open database
/etc/aliases.db: Inappropriate file type or format
Sep 1 18:23:35 masterblaster postfix/master[72634]: warning: process
/usr/local/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 73970 exit status 1
Sep 1 18:23:35 masterblaster postfix/master[72634]: warning:
/usr/local/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttl

it seems these errors are being thrown up every few seconds into the log
which is increasing in size as postfix is running

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