Permissions hell on newly upgraded FreeBSD 4.0

["Morgan Stewart" <veenoghu @ uvic . ca>]

I've just built a new FreeBSD 4.0 box and brought over my previous FreeBSD 2.2 configuration of Majordomo.

 

The result has been a nightmare of permissions errors that make no sense to me.

 

I have a user created named majordom with a GID & UID of 54.  The wrapper under config-test gives me a complete thumbs up if I'm in the homedir, yet even when I make everything world readable/writable I still get told that there is Permission Denied.

 

An example:

    MAJORDOMO ABORT (mj_majordomo)!!

    While running with an effective uid of 1 and an effective gid of 1 1 1, Majordomo

    ran into the following problems:

    Unable to write to log file, check permissions on /usr/local/majordomo/Log

I'm unclear why majordomo is running with a uid of 1 and a gid of 1 1 1 because those are the id's of the user daemon.

I have tried recompiling Majordomo 1.94.4, but to no avail.  I'm guessing that the problem might be related to the newer version of perl and some path switching because when I do a cnfig-test from outside of my homedir I get the following error:

Can't locate majordomo_version.pl in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/libdata/perl/5.0003/mach /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-freebsd /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 .) at /usr/local/majordomo/config-test line 140.          

Any suggestions?  I'm not on the listserv anymore so please include a reply to me directly.

In Solidarity,

Morgan Stewart

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