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[Zakaria <address@concealed>]

Hi,

I finally able to solve my problem. Many thanks to Olivier Salaun for
his help offline.

The problem using alias_manager in Debian Woody with postfix is:
1. /usr/lib/sympa/bin/aliaswrapper is broken
2. The script /usr/lib/sympa/bin/alias_manager.pl has error in it

The solution is
1. Skip aliaswrapper calling newaliases directly
2. Clear $ENV{'PATH'} before calling anything else

Detail
1. mkdir /etc/mail
2. create empty /etc/mail/sympa.aliases
   # touch /etc/mail/sympa.aliases
   # touch /etc/mail/sympa.aliases.db
   # chown sympa /etc/mail/sympa.aliases
   # chown sympa /etc/mail/sympa.aliases.db
3. Add /etc/mail/sympa.aliases to your /etc/postfix/main.cf
   ---------------------------------------------------------------
   alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases,hash:/etc/mail/sympa.aliases
   alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases,hash:/etc/mail/sympa.aliases
   ---------------------------------------------------------------
   And do postfix reload 
4. Make sympa able to run newaliases
   # chown sympa /etc/aliases.db
5. Patch /usr/lib/sympa/bin/alias_manager.pl with the following
-------------------------------------------------------------
--- alias_manager.pl.orig       Mon Nov 11 18:42:27 2002
+++ alias_manager.pl    Thu Jul 10 19:02:43 2003
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@
 # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307,
 # USA.
 
+$ENV{'PATH'} = '';
+
 ## Load Sympa.conf
 use lib '/usr/lib/sympa/bin';
 use Conf;
@@ -32,14 +34,13 @@
 my $tmp_alias_file = $Conf{'tmpdir'}.'/sympa_aliases.'.time;
 
 my $alias_file = '/etc/mail/sympa.aliases';
-my $alias_wrapper = '/usr/lib/sympa/bin/aliaswrapper';
-my $lock_file = '/usr/lib/sympa/alias_manager.lock';
+#my $alias_wrapper = '/usr/lib/sympa/bin/aliaswrapper';
+my $alias_wrapper = '/usr/bin/newaliases';
+my $lock_file = '/var/lib/sympa/alias_manager.lock';
 my $default_domain;
 my $path_to_queue = '/usr/lib/sympa/bin/queue';
 my $path_to_bouncequeue = '/usr/lib/sympa/bin/bouncequeue';
 my $sympa_conf_file = '/etc/sympa/sympa.conf';
-
-$ENV{'PATH'} = '';
 
 my ($operation, $listname, $domain) = @ARGV;
 
-------------------------------------------------------------
6. Restart your web server if you run fcgi

Hope its usefull

On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 05:27:33PM +0700, Zakaria wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using sympa 3.3.3 as shipped with Debian Woody (3.0) and using
> postfix 1.1.11 as my MTA.
> 
> I'm trying to use alias_manager.pl to automate creation of aliases.
> But I'm having some problem
> 1) Whenever I run alias_manager.pl, it always has following error
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> Exec of /usr/bin/newaliases failed!: Bad address
> Failed to execute newaliases: No such file or directory at 
> /usr/lib/sympa/bin/alias_manager.pl line 103.
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>    Apparently it tries to execute /usr/lib/sympa/bin/aliaswrapper
>    but that files always error. The documentation says that file will
>    execute /usr/bin/newaliases. I could execute newaliases just fine.
>    Is it alright if I just change $alias_wrapper to /usr/bin/newaliases?
    
> Thanks in advance,

Wassallam,


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