From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 18 3: 2: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from apotheosis.za.org (apotheosis.za.org [137.158.128.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E836150AD for ; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 03:01:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lonewolf@apotheosis.za.org) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 12:00:01 +0200 From: Lonewolf To: Wayne Spivak Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Majordomo.aliases file Message-ID: <19990618120001.A35185@apotheosis.za.org> Mail-Followup-To: Wayne Spivak , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <007401beb92e$f4b8ab90$8bd4cea7@office.nassau.cv.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <007401beb92e$f4b8ab90$8bd4cea7@office.nassau.cv.net>; from "Wayne Spivak" on Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 10:04:52PM Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 10:04:52PM -0400, Wayne Spivak wrote: > Just installed Majordomo and when I try to run newaliases I get this output. > > majordomo.aliases is 660 with root & daemon. > > any ideas? > > csc# newaliases > hash map "Alias0": unsafe map file > /usr/local/majordomo/majordomo.aliases.db: Permission denied > WARNING: cannot open alias database /usr/local/majordomo/majordomo.aliases > Cannot create database for alias file /usr/local/majordomo/majordomo.aliases > /etc/aliases: 29 aliases, longest 111 bytes, 671 bytes total chmod o+w /usr/local/majordomo newaliases chmod o-w /usr/local/majordomo newaliases runs as your mail user, which doesn't have access to write to your majordomo directory. -- lonewolf@apotheosis.za.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message