On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, John Horne wrote:
> On 16-Feb-00 at 05:48:05 Ross Anderson wrote:
> > This is the problem I'm having. Exim freezes all messages for
> > any of the lists if the lists are UID and GID by Majordomo. I've had
> > majordomo working in a hacked sort of way. By making the list owned
> > by majordomo and group of mail, Exim will deliver messages. I've
> > added mail (the group that exim runs as) to the group majordomo.
> > This didn't allow exim to deliver the mail either.
> > This wouldn't be a problem except when majordomo itself
> > processes an un-subscribe it fails because it is being denied the
> > chown to the files because the group is mail. I get an Abort message
> > operation not permitted. The lock file *.new gets all messed up.
> >
> We run md 1.94.4 with exim 3.12 on Sun solaris 7 systems. Both exim and md
> are group mail. Exim runs under its own userid, as does majordomo. I just
> tried unsubscribing myself from a list and it worked fine. I may be a bit
> thick here but where does the chown come into it? What is trying to chown
> the list file and why?
Well the Chown comes from Majordomo. Honestly I'm not sure what it
is trying to do by chowning. I know that it is creating a lock file of the
subscription list and that is where it is having fits. Why it is I'm not
sure.
>
> The exim configure file specifies 'group=mail' on the majordomo directors.
>
> John.
>
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