[Fwd: Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: Returned mail: Who are you?: Not a typewriter]]]

[Zafar Nasir <zafarn @ womex . com>]

THANKS ALOT for your HELP.  It worked but now there is a new problem...
wat i've got is an auto list and when someone subsribes to the list root
gets back a message saying 
> Subject: 
>         fyi results: Returned mail: User unknown (fwd)
>   Date: 
>         Thu, 22 Aug 1996 19:01:06 EDT
>   From: 
>         root@pluto.womex.com
>     To: 
>         zafarn@saturn.womex.com
> 
> 
> > 
> > --
> > 
> > >>>> ------- =_aaaaaaaaaa
> > END OF COMMANDS
> > 

If anyone can help me it'll be greatly appreciated. :) 

Zafar Nasir
WOMEX
Voice: 203-855-4144
www.womex.com


> 
> RAA07618; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 17:07:27 -0500 (CDT)
> To: zafarn@saturn.womex.com
> Cc: majordomo-users@GreatCircle.COM
> Subject: Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: Returned mail: Who are you?: Not a typewriter]]
> References: <321B6F5B.1C28@womex.com>
> From: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@hpc.uh.edu>
> Date: 21 Aug 1996 17:07:26 -0500
> In-Reply-To: Zafar Nasir's message of Wed, 21 Aug 1996 16:19:39 -0400
> Message-Id: <ufad90k9ysh.fsf@sina.hpc.uh.edu>
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> X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.39/Emacs 19.30
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> 
> >>>>> "ZN" == Zafar Nasir <zafarn@womex.com> writes:
> 
> ZN> i've been getting this message resent to the owner of the list
> ZN> everytime someone subscribes to it...
> 
> ZN> 554 Who are you?: Not a typewriter
> 
> Wow, that's weird.  It _looks_ like a shell is getting invoked and it's
> running startup files which try to do things like stty.  That shouldn't be
> happening.
> 
> There isn't enough info to tell where this shell is getting invoked; either
> it's by sendmail when it does the pipe to the wrapper, or somehow by perl
> when it does a glob expansion.  Very strange.
> 
> As a shot in the dark, does your majordomo user have .cshrc, .login,
> ..profile, or any other shell startup files in its home directory?  If so,
> move them somewhere else and see if it stops.
> --
>       Jason L. Tibbitts III - tibbs@uh.edu - 713/743-8684 - 221SR1
> System Manager:  University of Houston High Performance Computing Center
>                 1994 PC800 "Kuroneko"      DoD# 1723

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Subject: Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: Returned mail: Who are you?: Not a typewriter]]
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From: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@hpc.uh.edu>
Date: 21 Aug 1996 17:07:26 -0500
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>>>>> "ZN" == Zafar Nasir <zafarn@womex.com> writes:

ZN> i've been getting this message resent to the owner of the list
ZN> everytime someone subscribes to it...

ZN> 554 Who are you?: Not a typewriter

Wow, that's weird.  It _looks_ like a shell is getting invoked and it's
running startup files which try to do things like stty.  That shouldn't be
happening.

There isn't enough info to tell where this shell is getting invoked; either
it's by sendmail when it does the pipe to the wrapper, or somehow by perl
when it does a glob expansion.  Very strange.

As a shot in the dark, does your majordomo user have .cshrc, .login,
..profile, or any other shell startup files in its home directory?  If so,
move them somewhere else and see if it stops.
-- 
      Jason L. Tibbitts III - tibbs@uh.edu - 713/743-8684 - 221SR1
System Manager:  University of Houston High Performance Computing Center
                1994 PC800 "Kuroneko"      DoD# 1723

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