It means what it says - your majordomo lists directory is world-writable,
and your sendmail thinks that's a security risk, so refuses to :include: a
file from there.
Solutions:
1. Tighten the permissions on the lists directory, or
2. Tell sendmail not to be so paranoid (not recommended).
Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: John C. Card <jcc@enterprise.aacc.cc.md.us>
To: majordomo-users@greatcircle.com <majordomo-users@greatcircle.com>
Date: 16 October 1998 13:13
Subject: Returned mail: <friends@enterprise.aacc.cc.md.us>...
aliasing/forwardingloop broken (fwd)
>Any of you have an idea what this means ?>!
>
>
>John Card
>jcc@enterprise.aacc.cc.md.us
>jcc@intercap.com
>http://enterprise.aacc.cc.md.us/~jcc
>
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 23:03:01 -0400
>From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON@enterprise.aacc.cc.md.us>
>To: jcc@enterprise.aacc.cc.md.us
>Subject: Returned mail: <friends@enterprise.aacc.cc.md.us>...
> aliasing/forwarding loop broken
>
>The original message was received at Tue, 13 Oct 1998 23:03:00 -0400
>from jcc@localhost
>
> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
><friends@enterprise.aacc.cc.md.us>
>:include:/u/faculty/majordomo/lists/friends
> (expanded from: <friends@enterprise.aacc.cc.md.us>)
>
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>550 :include:/u/faculty/majordomo/lists/friends... Cannot open
/u/faculty/majordomo/lists/friends: World writable directory
>Message delivered to mailing list <friends@enterprise.aacc.cc.md.us>
>554 <friends@enterprise.aacc.cc.md.us>... aliasing/forwarding loop broken
>
>
>
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