Hello All,
I just installed the majordomo-1.94.4-6.i386.rpm out of RedHats
contrib directory and I'm noticing some curious behaviour.
Majordomo: 1.94.4
System: RedHat Linux 6.0
Perl: 5.00503
Sendmail: 8.9.3
I installed the package, added the link from /etc/smrsh/wrapper to
/usr/lib/majordomo/wrapper, configured majordomo.cf, added the appropriate
aliases to /etc/aliases, and tested it. Fine. Great. It all worked.
At that point, the only aliases I had were in /etc/aliases and
read:
majordomo: "|/usr/lib/majordomo/wrapper majordomo"
owner-majordomo: crcarter,
majordomo-owner: crcarter
Then, I went through the NEWLIST file to add a list called
vacation. At this point, I decided to move all of my majordomo specific
aliases to a file called majordomo.aliases. So I commented out the
alaises in /etc/aliases and added them to
/usr/lib/majordomo/majordomo.aliases. Then I added a line:
"OA/usr/lib/majordomo/majordomo.aliases" to my /etc/sendmail.cf. This is
how my new aliases file read:
-- Start --
# Majordomo Aliases File
# Required aliases for the proper operation of Majordomo
majordomo: "|/usr/lib/majordomo/wrapper majordomo"
owner-majordomo: crcarter,
majordomo-owner: crcarter
# Aliases for the vacation list
vacation: "|/usr/lib/majordomo/wrapper resend -l vacation
vacation-list"
vacation-list: :include:/var/lib/majordomo/lists/vacation
owner-vacation: crcarter,
vacation-owner: crcarter
vacation-request: "|/usr/lib/majordomo/wrapper majordomo -l vacation"
vacation-approval: crcarter
-- End --
I ran newaliases and everything seemed fine. From my
non-superuser account on the machine running Majordomo, I was able to
subscribe and configure the list. All was good. When I tried to
subscribe to the vacation-request address, I got a user unknown error. So
I tried it the hard way. I email majordomo and said "subscribe
vacation". Nothing. I email majordomo and said "list". Nothing.
"help". Nothing. Come to find out, these messages are just sitting in
the majordomo's mail spool, and nothing is happening to them. I try to do
the above commands from my account on the machine and it all works peachy
keen.
Perplexed, I comment out the OA line in sendmail.cf and add all of
the majordomo.aliases to the regular aliases file. `newaliases` and
Bingo! Everything starts working fine. Reverse the fix that I just did
and move the majordomo.aliases file to /etc and it breaks again.
Like I said, everything appears to work fine if you are using the
box that is actually running Majordomo/Sendmail, but any other account and
nothing happens. For now, I've just moved everything to the /etc/aliases,
but I'd like not to have to mess with that too much.
What can I do to make the majordomo.aliases file work properly.
Rather, what have I done or not done to make the majordomo.aliases file
work properly.
Thanks!
--pc
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Clayton Carter crcarter@cs.indiana.edu
"My mom says I'm the handsomest guy in school."
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