The error message you received is sendmail complaining about a directory
in the majordomo tree that is group writable. Sendmail does not allow this
or world writable for that matter.
chmod go-w / /usr /usr/test
chmod -R go-w /usr/test/majordomo-1.94.5
Dan Liston
Liz Blankenship wrote:
>
> Hello. I am a majordomo and Sendmail newbie and too am having mail delivery
> problems. I am running majordomo-1.94.5, Sendmail 8.8 and Red Hat 6.0.
>
> Here is a portion of the returned mail:
> >Subject: Returned mail:
> :include:/usr/test/majordomo-1.94.5/lists/montavv-staff... Cannot open
> /usr/test/majordomo-1.94.5/lists/montavv-staff: Group writable directory
> >Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (failure)
> >Status:
> >
> >The original message was received at Fri, 15 Sep 2000 09:33:24 -0400
> >from majordomo@localhost
> >
> > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> >:include:/usr/test/majordomo-1.94.5/lists/montavv-staff
> > (expanded from: montavv-outgoing)
> >
> > ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> >550 "/usr/test/majordomo-1.94.5/wrapper archive -f
> /usr/test/majordomo-1.94.5/archives/montavv-staff/montavv-staff -m -a"...
> Can't create output: No such file or directory
> >Message delivered to mailing list montavv-staff-archive
> >550 :include:/usr/test/majordomo-1.94.5/lists/montavv-staff... Cannot open
> /usr/test/majordomo-1.94.5/lists/montavv-staff: Group writable directory
>
> The file:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 majordom daemon 57 Sep 14 14:38 montavv-staff
>
> I've read through the recent posts but am getting confused. Does anyone
> have any ideas on where I should look first? As a reference I have been
> using the documentation that came w/ majordomo and O'Reilly's "Managing
> Internet Information Services". Its the '94 edition so its a little dated
> but it has helped explain a lot to me. Thanks.
>
> Liz Blankenship
> Internet Specialist
> Monticello Avenue
> Charlottesville, VA
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