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Subject: Re: Strange Error; Used to work
From: Mats Dufberg <Mats . Dufberg @ abc . se>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 20:23:44 +0100 (MET)
To: "Jay V." <infoteq @ dracon . net>
Cc: majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980920161211.21122A-100000@dracon.net>

On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Jay V. wrote:

> > Sendmail 8.9.x is more picky about permissions. Do 
> >   chmod 750 /var/lib/majordomo/
> >   chmod 750 /var/lib/majordomo/lists/
> > and it will probably work.
> > 
> 
> When I do that, I get the following error to the listowner when
> mail is sent:
> 
> **********
> shlock: '/var/lib/majordomo/lists' is not writable by UID 2 GID 2 
> **********

Either wrapper is not working/being used, or your have used UID 2 in
wrapper, as far as I can see.

Are you using wrapper? What user have you compiled into wrapper, UID 2,
daemon? Does your system support SUID? Who owns wrapper?


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Mats Dufberg                                  Mats.Dufberg@abc.se




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