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Subject: Re: fatal errors
From: Dan Liston <dliston @ netscape . com>
Organization: iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions, A Sun Netscape Alliance
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 11:56:57 -0500
To: majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
References: <016201bfbbf5$2848bb20$e30e0418@ftwrth1.tx.home.com.ftwrth1.tx.home.com>

> Huff wrote:
> 
> This is the exact error msg returned from win98, outlook-xp:
> 
>    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> beer-list
> :include:/usr/local/majordomo/lists/beer
>     (expanded from: beer-list)
> 
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 550 :include:/usr/local/majordomo/lists/beer... Cannot open /usr/local/majordomo/lists/beer: World writable directory
> 554 beer-list... aliasing/forwarding loop broken

Look closely... World writable directory
Sendmail 8.[89].x will not allow .forward or :include:
files in directories that are group or world "writable".

chmod 755 /usr/local/majordomo/lists
chmod 751 /usr/local/majordomo
chmod 755 /usr/local
chmod 755 /usr
chmod 755 /


Dan Liston


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