From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 8 06:58:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA03467 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 06:58:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from panam1.panam.edu (panam1.panam.edu [129.113.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA03462 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 06:58:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fabry@panam.edu) Received: from earth (earth.coserve.org) by panam1.panam.edu (PMDF V5.1-10 #24254) with SMTP id <01J1K3QEFG8E8YAFYG@panam1.panam.edu> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 08:56:27 CDT Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 08:58:10 -0500 From: "Alain G. Fabry" Subject: Majordomo error while running newaliases To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <02a101bddb30$b6be7450$5531d5c6@earth.coserve.org> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 X-Priority: 3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Following is an error I receive while updating newaliases : /etc/aliases: 18 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 183 bytes total hash map "Alias1": unsafe map file /usr/local/majordomo/aliases.majordomo: Permi ssion denied WARNING: cannot open alias database /usr/local/majordomo/aliases.majordomo Cannot create database for alias file /usr/local/majordomo/aliases.majordomo: Op eration not supported by device I'm running newaliases as root. What can be the problem? Alain To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message