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Subject: Re: problem with approve script
From: omar @ clifford . inch . com (Omar Thameen)
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 01:21:28 -0500
To: majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <199702191513.JAA14355@miaow.risc.sps.mot.com>; from Dave Wolfe on Feb 19, 1997 09:13:40 -0600
References: <199702182130.QAA03108@clifford.inch.com> <199702191513.JAA14355@miaow.risc.sps.mot.com>

Dave Wolfe writes:
> [ Omar Thameen writes: ]
> > 
> > I'm finding a problem with the way the approve script interacts with
> > a .majordomo file that I've noticed since I upgraded from 1.93 to
> > 1.94, and it still persists in 1.94.1.  In sum, if I pipe a message
> > through approve in my mailer, I get the error message:
> > 
> > no password for list listname; skipping "subscribe listname \
> > omar@clifford.inch.com" at /usr/local/bin/approve line 147, <STDIN> chunk 18.
> > 
> > I got this to work by removing the "\" escaping the "@" in line 145:
[...]
> 
> That should make no difference in older versions of Perl, but totally
> screw up Perl 5. Exactly what version of Perl are you using? (perl -v
> will tell you.)

perl 5.003.

[...]
> > .majordomo file usage.
> > 
> > listname	listpasswd	majordomo@list.wherever
>                                           ^^^^
> Maybe that's your problem. The listname shouldn't appear in the 3rd
> field. That should be just the address of the Mj server. Or am I
> misinterpreting what you've written?

Just a bad example.  Since I'm administering from the same machine
as Mj is on, I've got

listname	listpasswd	majordomo

as the .majordomo file.  Hmmm.  This may be the problem.  I just 
made the last field majordomo@domain.com and it worked.

Omar



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