At 02:12 AM 4/25/00 -0500, Dan Liston wrote:
>First I want to make sure we are on the same sheet of music here.
:-) .. sure ...
>What user and group is majordomo installed as? majordom:majord?
yes.
>Is your majordomo.cf in the /etc directory? Or is it in the
no.
>/object_research/system/majordomo-1.94.5 directory?
yes.
>Is /object_research group or world writable?
yes, 775 (group) (??!!)
>Is /object_research/system group or world writable?
no, 755
>Is /object_research/system/majordomo-1.94.5 group or world writable?
no, 755
>Is /object_research/system/majordomo-1.94.5/lists group or world writable?
no, 755
>None of them should be. If they are, chmod them to 755 or 751.
Wow ...I never thought it would require the root (top) to be like that. I
was just paying attention to the lower level. I am using Sendmail's Single
Switch (based on 8.10) and started changing some stuff on its config trying
to make it run on world writable dir's w/o luck. It works now ....
> From your majordomo.cf file,
>Does $whereami = "cis.gsu.edu";
>Does $homedir = "/object_research/system/majordomo-1.94.5";
>Does $listdir = "/object_research/system/majordomo-1.94.5/lists";
yes to all .... :-)
>The next questions are not as important right now but,
>Does $filedir = "$listdir";
>Does $filedir_suffix = ".archive";
yes to all ....
>Does $digest_work_dir = "$homedir/digests";
"$listdir/digests" and it is 755. I also have a "archive" dir in the same
level with 755.
Let me know if this is wrong for archiving/digesting Thanks!
>Dan Liston
>
>Roderick Padilla wrote:
> >
> > At 01:57 PM 4/20/00 -0500, you wrote:
> > >The problem sendmail is complaining about is with your directory
> > >permissions, not the files in the directory.
> > >
> > >chmod 751 /usr/local/majordomo
> > >chmod 755 /usr/local/majordomo/lists
> > >chmod 644 /usr/local/majordomo/lists/*
> >
> > I know .. I am getting there slowly ... I have done the above and getting
> > this ...
> >
> > 550 5.2.4 :include:/object_research/system/majordomo-1.94.5/lists/test...
> > Cannot open /object_research/system/majordomo-1.94.5/lists/test: World
> > writable directory
> >
> > here is part of my aliases file ...
> > #######################
> > # Local aliases below #
> > #######################
> > test: :include:/object_research/system/majordomo-1.94.5/lists/test
> > owner-test: rpadilla
> > test-request: "|/object_research/system/majordomo-1.94.5/wrapper
> > request-answer test"
> > test-approval: rpadilla
> >
> > >>>>> I have done the simplest stuff because I was getting the same
> > message on more complicated aliases so I kept it to basics ... even with
> > the aboe permissions .. Uffff ... not sure what is going on .... here is my
> > listing ..
> >
> > drwxr-xr-x 4 majordom majord 1024 Apr 24 19:24 .
> > drwxr-x--x 6 majordom majord 1024 Apr 24 19:38 ..
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 majordom majord 17 Apr 17 17:04 test
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 majordom majord 16482 Apr 17 17:02 test.config
> >
> > Roderick Padilla Office:(404)
Roderick Padilla Office:(404) 651-3832
Systems & Network Administrator Fax: (404) 651-3842
http://www.cis.gsu.edu/~rpadilla Email: rpadilla@gsu.edu
Department of Computer Information Systems
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