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Subject: Re: Majordomo ABORT - Can someone help?
From: Trace Pupke <tpupke @ quinncom . net>
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 13:05:37 -0500
To: postmaster @ cadence . com
Cc: majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM

At 09:41 AM 11/11/96 -0800, postmaster@cadence.com wrote:
>chown is only allowed by the user or super-user. So what it means is that
>majordomo is not running as the owner of the file, (or root) and so cannot 
>chown.
>
>Julian

Thanks for replying, but what would be the way to correct this?
The file, that can't be changed, is created automatically and is first
owned by bin:bin when the problem below happens.

Should I add majordom to the bin group? Change the ownership on
the majordomo exec. or another file?

Thanks for any help.


>> Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 18:22:02 -0500
>> To: majordomo-users@GreatCircle.COM
>> From: Trace Pupke <tpupke@quinncom.net>
>> Subject: Majordomo ABORT - Can someone help?
>> 
>> I'm getting this error message when I try to unsubscribe.
>> ---
>> 
>> MAJORDOMO ABORT
>> 
>> chown(54, 2, "/usr/local/majordomo/lists/test.new"): Operation not
permitted
>> 
>> ---
>> I'm trying to set up majordomo on Linux 2.0.18
>> I have the user and group set as majordom:daemon (54:2)
>> I added majordom to the group listing for daemon

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