Greetings: Following the instruction from the suse README implicity I still get errors. It seems that the base install has not configured the permissions properly for /usr/sbin/postalias to write too /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases dspite running SuSEconfig The mailman error message reads as follows: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main main() File "/var/tmp/mailman-2.1.1-build/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 55, in main File "/var/tmp/mailman-2.1.1-build/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 217, in process_request File "/var/tmp/mailman-2.1.1-build/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 226, in create File "/var/tmp/mailman-2.1.1-build/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 47, in _update_maps RuntimeError: command failed: /usr/sbin/postalias /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases (status: 1, Operation not permitted) Looking at ls -la /usr/sbin/postalias we get -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 132952 2003-03-17 10:35 /usr/sbin/postalias and ls -la /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases we get -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mailman 1714 2003-06-16 22:27 /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases changing /usr/sbin/postalias to root.mailman gives however the same result. So in summary...me lost as to what to try next..:) Any help would be greatly appreciated. Chris H