Is /var/log/majordomo.log a file or a directory? If a directory, remove
that directory and try again.
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Joshua Pincus wrote:
> 12-11-96
>
> Majordomo 1.94 on my FreeBSD Perl5.003-based system is doing extremly
> odd things.
>
> Here is some sample output from the majordomo.debug file:
>
> Out of memory!
> Out of memory!
> Out of memory!
> Attempt to free unreferenced glob pointers, <> chunk 1.
>
> After adding $DEBUG = 1; to the cf file, I got a MASSIVE listing of the
> following information repreated over and over again:
>
> /usr/local/majordomo/majordomo: main'log()
> /usr/local/majordomo/majordomo: main'log(): opening logfile
> /var/log/majordomo.log
> /usr/local/majordomo/majordomo: main'log()
> /usr/local/majordomo/majordomo: main'log(): opening logfile
> /var/log/majordomo.log
> Out of memory!
>
> The permissions on all the files (including the log file in /var/log) are
> set correctly. Thec config-test scripts works, ie., if I run it as
> myself I get my uid/gid and environmental settings, if ./wrapper config-test
> is run, the uid/gid of majordomo (which is listserv.daemon) is in the
> output. Also, listserv, the majordomo user, is a trusted user as far as
> sendmail 8.8.3 is concerned. Point of clarification, the directories are
> 775 and the log files are 664. EVERYTHING is owned by listserv.daemon except
> the wrapper.
>
> Furthermore, wrapper was configured for a POSIX-compliant system since
> FreeBSD IS a POSIX-compliant system. I tried to compile the wrapper for
> non-POSIX systems, and FreeBSD cried foul. That is, I got a message
> saying that I need to recompile the wrapper.
>
> All of the @ characters in the majordomo and majordomo.cf files are escaped
> properly. And Perl seems VERY happy with everything else. However, with
> Majordomo 1.94, I get a perl.core file generated and a memory leak error
> mailed to root. You can actually see the memory leak in action: Perl
> begins as a 2 meg resident program and it LEAPS to a 64 M program while
> interpreting the majordomo scripts.
>
> Anyone got any ideas about what could be wrong here? The only test I have
> done is to set up the MOST basic aliases and create a test list in
> /usr/local/var/lists. I mail "lists" to majordomo, and I get the errors
> that I have mentioned.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Josh Pincus
>
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