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hi
the permission of /home/sympa/bin/aliaswrapper is suid root executable and 
also when i make a new list i have to make the same 3 stpes:
(1) postalias /etc/mail/sympa_aliases
(2) newaliases
(3) reload postfix service 

here are the permissions of my sympa :) that may help

ls -lia /home/sympa/

221682 drwxrwxr-x   14 sympa    sympa        4096 Jan 22 10:57 .
 48889 drwxrwxr-x    7 sympa    sympa        4096 Jan 22 10:51 arc
 220724 -rw-r--r--    1 sympa    sympa           6 Jan 22 10:57 archived.pid
 222060 -rw-rw-r--    1 sympa    sympa          78 Jan 18 17:16 .bash_history
 221688 -rw-rw-r--    1 sympa    sympa          24 Aug 23  2002 .bash_logout
 221689 -rw-rw-r--    1 sympa    sympa         191 Aug 23  2002 .bash_profile
 221690 -rw-rw-r--    1 sympa    sympa         124 Aug 23  2002 .bashrc
  96021 drwxr-xr-x    4 sympa    sympa        4096 Jan 22 11:11 bin
 221674 -rw-r--r--    1 sympa    sympa           6 Jan 22 10:57 bounced.pid
 221693 -rw-rw-r--    1 sympa    sympa        5531 Aug  6  2002 .canna
 111547 drwxr-xr-x    3 sympa    sympa        4096 Jan 15 18:02 doc
 221691 -rw-rw-r--    1 sympa    sympa         854 Aug 28  2002 .emacs
 190540 drwxr-xr-x    8 sympa    sympa        4096 Jan 15 18:14 etc
  96023 drwxr-xr-x   10 sympa    sympa        4096 Jan 22 10:59 expl
 221692 -rw-rw-r--    1 sympa    sympa         120 Sep 10  2002 .gtkrc
 221683 drwxrwxr-x    3 sympa    sympa        4096 Aug 12  2002 .kde
 222067 -rwxrwxr-x    1 sympa    sympa       69037 Jan 20 17:38 Mailbox
 363526 drw-r--r--    2 root     root         4096 Jan 15 17:57 nls
 190113 drwxr-xr-x    2 sympa    sympa        4096 Jan 19 18:07 run
 174644 drwxr-xr-x    3 sympa    sympa        4096 Jan 15 17:57 sample
 174643 drwxr-xr-x    2 sympa    sympa        4096 Jan 15 17:57 script
 300065 drwxr-xr-x    3 sympa    sympa        4096 Jan 15 17:43 source
 300032 drwxrwxr-x   12 sympa    sympa        4096 Jan 15 18:14 spool
 220433 -rw-r--r--    1 sympa    sympa           6 Jan 22 10:56 sympa.pid
 221678 -rw-r--r--    1 sympa    sympa           6 Jan 22 10:57 
task_manager.pid

can anyone help :(



>On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 10:30:54AM +0100, address@concealed wrote:
>i have to made these steps to make postfix read the aliases
>(1) postalias /etc/mail/sympa_aliases
>(2) newaliases
>(3) restart postfix service 
>
>!! so may be a problem in alias_manager.pl ??
>or what is the problem??
>i need to make it automatic not when make a new list i have to make these 3 
>>steps.
>
>i am sure i posted about it recently
>alias_manager.pl contains a line like
>my $alias_wrapper = '/usr/sbin/aliaswrapper';
>the aliaswrapper command defined should be a suid root executable that
>can be run by sympa user only

>it should run newaliases which is enough
>1) postalias is done by newaliases if alias_database is correct, and
>yours is.
>3) you don't need restart postfix, only wait for a couple of minutes and
>it will notice. if you don't want the delay use postfix reload (not
>restart)

>L.
>
>
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