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Subject: Re: Getting started
From: Dave Wolfe <dwolfe @ risc . sps . mot . com>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 10:44:59 -0600 (CST)
To: pj22298 @ appstate . edu
Cc: majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970312151452.16595D-100000@anx0825.slip.appstate.edu> from "Phillip Jones" at Mar 12, 97 03:37:24 pm
Reply-to: Dave Wolfe <david_wolfe @ risc . sps . mot . com>

[ Phillip Jones writes: ]
> 
> When I send a "Help", majordomo complians a bout not being able to
> open a log file, And when I send a command like "lists" It aborts
> because it can't get a lock file. No indications of trouble came up
> in ./wrapper config-test, and nothing looked wrong until I tested it.
> I have tried severail file permisions including 0666 on all concerned
> file, but with no luck. I'm running (Slackware 96), Kernel v.2.0.28.

Mj has to be able to create lock files in the directories of all the
files it accesses, so you need to be sure it has write permissions for
those directories as well as the files. Also be sure you ran config-test
as an ordinary user, not as root or your majordom user.

-- 
 Dave Wolfe


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