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Subject: Re: setting up- shlock/permission problem
From: dwolfe @ risc . sps . mot . com (Dave Wolfe)
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 19:00:07 -0500 (CDT)
To: svazquez @ luuworld . Eng . Sun . COM (Stephen Vazquez)
Cc: majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com (Majordomo user's mailing list)
In-reply-to: <199510261851.LAA11947@luuworld.eng.sun.com> from "Stephen Vazquez" at Oct 26, 95 11:51:35 am
Reply-to: Dave Wolfe <david_wolfe @ risc . sps . mot . com>

[ Stephen Vazquez writes: ]
> 
> In trying to set up 1.92 on solaris 2.5 machine. I run into the       
> problem of a shlock file not being opened in homedir. I used the      
> Makefile (POSIX) which sets UID to 1 (daemon). The permissions on     
> homedir are 775 majordomo majordomo so daemon doesn't have write      
> permission to homedir. A help request takes about 5-7 minutes while a 
> warning (seen during truss) keeps saying shlock file can't be open.   
> Eventually it stops and the help answer gets sent back ok. does       
> anyone know what i'm doing wrong?                                     

Majordomo *must* have write permissions in the directories of all files
it accesses, even the log file, because it must create a lock file in
the directory. Ownership of the files and directories should match what
you configured in the Makefile.

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