From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Apr 22 18:04:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA26216 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 18:04:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA26194; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 01:04:21 GMT (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA16034; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 10:32:09 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199804230102.KAA16034@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Axel Thimm cc: jfitz@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Majordomo 1.94.4 and `unsafe map file' failure In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 22 Apr 1998 21:22:41 +0200." <19980422212241.A27406@physik.fu-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 10:32:09 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > /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.. --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message