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Subject: Re: first time installation
From: Ismail Ali <mael @ asiapac . net>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 96 08:33:34 -0500
To: Michael Young <fprefect @ sccsi . com>
Cc: "majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com" <majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com>

> > owner and group are root and majordom respectively. Thanks.
> 
> If this is a posix installation, the owner and group for wrapper need to 
> both be root.  However, the uid/gid from the "majordom" user must be 
> compiled into it.

Yeah, it is a posix installation. Ok, this is what I've changed to :
       
total 604
-rw-rw-r--   1 majordom majordom   39173 Jan 11  1995 Changelog
-rw-rw-r--   1 majordom majordom   12785 Apr  3  1994 Changes
-rw-rw-r--   1 majordom majordom    4601 May  6  1994 Description
drw-rw-r--   3 majordom majordom     512 Jan 23 09:14 Doc
-rw-rw-r--   1 majordom majordom    4631 Dec 27  1994 LICENSE
-rw-rw-r--   1 majordom majordom       0 Jan 24 09:56 Log
drwx------   2 majordom majordom     512 Jan 24 14:28 Mail
-rw-rw-r--   1 majordom majordom    4481 Jan 24 11:06 Makefile
-rw-rw-r--   1 majordom majordom     531 May 10  1994 Manifest
-rw-rw-r--   1 majordom majordom   54569 Jan  8  1995 README
drw-rw-r--   2 majordom majordom     512 Jan 23 13:09 Tools
-rw-rw-r--   1 majordom majordom    6219 Jan  2  1995 approve
drwxr-xr-x   4 majordom majordom     512 Jan 23 09:46 archive
drw-rw-r--   2 majordom majordom     512 Jan 23 13:09 bin
-rw-rw-r--   1 majordom majordom    2887 Dec 28  1994 bounce
-rw-rw-r--   1 majordom majordom    2615 Dec 27  1994 bounce-remind
-rw-rw-r--   1 majordom majordom   43737 Jan  8  1995 config_parse.pl
drw-rw-r--   2 majordom majordom     512 Jan 23 09:14 contrib
-rw-rw-r--   1 majordom majordom    1741 Jan 24 10:58 dead.letter
drwxr-xr-x   2 majordom majordom     512 Jan 23 09:14 digest
drwxr-xr-x   2 majordom majordom     512 Jan 23 13:44 lists
-rw-rw-r--   1 majordom majordom   42524 Jan  5  1995 majordomo
-rw-rw-r--   1 majordom majordom    3783 Jan 24 11:02 majordomo.cf
-rw-rw-r--   1 majordom majordom   14327 Jan  8  1995 majordomo.pl
-rw-rw-r--   1 majordom majordom     141 Dec 27  1994 majordomo_version.pl
drwxr-xr-x   4 majordom majordom     512 Jan 23 15:27 man
-rw-rw-r--   1 majordom majordom    1424 Dec 27  1994 medit
-rw-rw-r--   1 majordom majordom    2153 Jan  8  1995 new-list
-rw-rw-r--   1 majordom majordom    3024 Dec 27  1994 request-answer
-rw-rw-r--   1 majordom majordom   12872 Jan  8  1995 resend
-rw-rw-r--   1 majordom majordom    3742 Sep  3  1993 resend.README
-rw-rw-r--   1 majordom majordom    2087 May  9  1994 sample.aliases
-rw-rw-r--   1 majordom majordom    3697 Jan  8  1995 sample.cf
-rw-rw-r--   1 majordom majordom    6183 Jan  1  1995 shlock.pl
-rw-rw-r--   1 majordom majordom     131 Dec 27  1994 test
-rwsr-xr-x   1 root     root        7476 Jan 24 11:06 wrapper
-rw-rw-r--   1 majordom majordom    2783 Jan  8  1995 wrapper.c
-rw-rw-r--   1 majordom majordom     223 May 10  1994 wrapper.sh

the wrapper was compiled with root as uid and majordom as gid. But I didn't
run make install-wrapper since it will change the group back to majordomo
for wrapper.

> The error you are receiving is a permission problem.
> 
> You also need to make sure that the majordom user you used when you set 
> the program up is a "trusted" user as far as sendmail is concerned.  This 
> is done by editing the sendmail.cf file and adding a line reading 
> "Tmajordom" under the trustees section.
>
This is the after changes on sendmail.cf

#####################
#   Trusted users   #
#####################
 
Troot
Tdaemon
Tuucp
#added by ismail for majordomo user
Tmajordom
 
#########################


Then this was the message I got after followed your instructions.
 
The original message was received at Wed, 24 Jan 1996 23:50:02 +0800
from relay2.jaring.my [192.228.128.12]

   ----- The following addresses had delivery problems -----
"|/usr/local/pkg/majordomo-1.93/wrapper majordomo"  (unrecoverable error)
    (expanded from: <majordomo@asiapac.net>)

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
Message delivered to mailing list <majordomo@asiapac.net>
majordomo: Permission denied
554 "|/usr/local/pkg/majordomo-1.93/wrapper majordomo"... unknown mailer
error 5

it still shows the error.
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