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Date:      Thu, 23 Apr 1998 10:32:09 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Cc:        jfitz@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Majordomo 1.94.4 and `unsafe map file' failure 
Message-ID:  <199804230102.KAA16034@cain.gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 Apr 1998 21:22:41 %2B0200." <19980422212241.A27406@physik.fu-berlin.de> 

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> /etc/aliases: 18 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 183 bytes total
> hash map "Alias1": unsafe map file /usr/local/majordomo/aliases.majordomo: Pe
> rmission 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
> 
> -r--r--r--  1 bin  bin  4581 Apr 22 20:08 aliases.majordomo
> 
> Any hints, as to where the problem lies?
This happens because newalias can't write the DB file to the same directory..
I think you'll have to fudge the permissions, and run newalias, and then 
change the permissions back..

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