[BlueOnyx:03673] Re: Unable to create new sites

[Gerald Waugh]

On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 07:53 -0600, Larry Smith wrote:
> On Thu February 25 2010 07:38, Christoph Schneeberger wrote:
> > Larry Smith wrote:
> > > On Thu February 25 2010 06:02, Christoph Schneeberger wrote:
> > >> Steve Howes wrote:
> > >>> On 24 Feb 2010, at 16:06, Christoph Schneeberger wrote:
> > >>>> "Unable to create the system email alias, sys at www.abcdefgh.ch, for
> > >>>> this
> > >>>> site. Make sure no user on the system is using the alias and try
> > >>>> again."
> > >>>>
> > >>>> in /var/log/messages I get:
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Feb 24 17:02:04 vps-105-96 cced(smd)[11718]: client
> > >>>> 28:handlers/base/vsite/vsite_create.pl: CREATE succeeded
> > >>>> Feb 24 17:02:04 vps-105-96 cced(smd)[11718]: client
> > >>>> 28:handlers/base/vsite/vsite_create.pl: CREATE  ProtectedEmailAlias
> > >>>> fqdn
> > >>>> = "www.abcdefgh.ch" site = site2 build_maps = 0 action = sys alias =
> > >>>> sys
> > >>>> Feb 24 17:02:04 vps-105-96 cced(smd)[11718]: client
> > >>>> 28:handlers/base/vsite/vsite_create.pl: CREATE ProtectedEmailAlias
> > >>>> failed (-7)
> > >>>
> > >>> Eeek, had that on a Cobalt once. Was caused by an oid being used that
> > >>> wasn't in the index. Have you let the disk fill up / had any signs of
> > >>> disk corruption? It might be completely unrelated but its exactly the
> > >>> same errors...
> > >>
> > >> Not that I am aware of, no quota probs, no crash or such and no disk
> > >> full either, its a OpenVZ Container and until now it hadn't made any
> > >> problems.
> > >> Is there anything I can possibly do to further diagnose the problem ?
> > >> Any hints are welcome, thanks for taking the time.
> > >
> > > Believe that part of the code is adding the username to the
> > > virtusertable. Try logging into the box and update the virtusertable
> > > manually and see if there are any issues:
> > >
> > > cd /etc/mail
> > > makemap hash virtusertable < virtusertable
> > >
> > > If there are any errors there, fix them, then try again until it works,
> > > then try adding the site again.
> >
> > Thanks for the suggestion, but the virtusertable is healthy (updates
> > without problems).
> > So far I think it fails before updating maps and I come to think there
> > is one of this strange OID problems that were discussed here from time
> > to time.
> >
> 
> Interesting....  Ok, you are adding an alias of "sys" (according to the
> log snippet), so try adding an entry of "sys" to the virtusertable (copy
> some line and replace the first position with "sys") then try rebuilding
> it and see if it gives any errors...  Sounds like you are trying to use
> a "protected" system alias from the error message...
> 
[root at main ~]# grep sys /etc/group
sys:x:3:root,bin,adm

Gerald