From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 31 0:29:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CA1314CA2 for ; Mon, 31 May 1999 00:29:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.152.75]) by mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990531073207.XYSL7623210.mta2-rme@wocker>; Mon, 31 May 1999 19:32:07 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: Roelof Osinga Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 19:29:38 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Majordomo problems Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <3751F378.8714537@eboa.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990531073207.XYSL7623210.mta2-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 31 May 99, at 4:27, Roelof Osinga wrote: > May 31 04:04:26 n669 sendmail[66642]: EAA66641: SYSERR(root): hash map > "Alias1": > missing map file /usr/local/majordomo/aliases.majordomo.db: No such file > or > dir > ectory > > a newaliases begets this: > > nl:/etc# newaliases > /etc/aliases: 41 aliases, longest 56 bytes, 784 bytes total > hash map "Alias1": unsafe map file > /usr/local/majordomo/aliases.majordomo.db: Pe rmission denied WARNING: > cannot open alias database /usr/local/majordomo/aliases.majordomo Cannot > create database for alias file /usr/local/majordomo/aliases.majordomo > > But, believe you me, the /usr/local/majordomo/aliases.majordomo *is* > present. It's saying it can't create the .db file. are you running this as root? -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.FreeBSDDiary.org/freebsd/ NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/ The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message