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Subject: Re: strange problems with permissions...
From: Dan Liston <dliston @ netscape . com>
Organization: iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions, A Sun Netscape Alliance
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 11:29:02 -0500
To: gregm @ smcmetal . com
Cc: majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
References: <000c01c00ec6$71eaca60$6201010a@smcmetal.com>

How about including a snippet of your messages file? and your aliases file?
for the list that has evaporating mail.  If the log is saying success, where
is it delivering to?  Perhaps the problem is at the next hop.

Dan Liston

Greg Muehl wrote:
> 
> Dan,
> 
> I dont have a file called maillog. I usually look at the /var/log/messages
> file when troubleshooting sendmail etc.
> 
> I followed the chmod advice and uncommented the sendmail config (restarted
> too), but the list's mail just seems to evaporate! It shows sent in the
> messages file but doesnt break down the users?
> 
> The majordomo Log file doesnt report any problems whatsoever.
> 
> I'm stumped,
> 
> Greg Muehl
> System Administrator
> SMC Metal Fabricators
> gregm@smcmetal.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----

> Check your sendmail /var/log/maillog, and your
> /usr/test/majordomo-1.94.5/Log
> files.  If your problem is a permissions issue, and you do not have "users"
> local to that machine, disable sendmail security by uncommenting
> #O DontBlameSendmail=safe
> in the sendmail.cf file.
> 
> If you do have users on the same machine as sendmail and majordomo, Check
> the
> group write bit on every directory in the tree leading to your lists
> directory
> and turn it off with chmod g-w directoryname and chmod -R g-w
> /path/to/majordomo
> 
> Dan Liston



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