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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: newaliases problem
To: k20418@kyyppari.hkkk.fi (Teemu Kuusijarvi)
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 07:21:59 -0800 (PST)
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199711280344.FAA13173@kyyppari.hkkk.fi> from "Teemu Kuusijarvi" at Nov 28, 97 05:44:45 am
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Teemu Kuusijarvi wrote:
> 
> I have installed 2.2.5-RELEASE and majordomo 1.94.4
> from the ports collection. Newaliases gives me the following
> message:
> -----------------
> root@kotka# newaliases            
> /etc/aliases: 45 aliases, longest 38 bytes, 740 bytes total
> hash map "Alias1": unsafe map file
> /usr/local/majordomo/aliases.majordomo: Permission denied
> WARNING: cannot open alias database /usr/local/majordomo/aliases.majordomo
> Cannot create database for alias file
> /usr/local/majordomo/aliases.majordomo: Operation not supported by device
> -----------------
> 
> What is going on here?

	sounds like you are either mising the file 
	/usr/local/majordomo/aliases.majordomo
	or the permissions are wrong.

	compare the permissions  with /etc/aliases
jmb