$homedir write permission -- why?

[gamble <gamble @ tsoft . com>]

Please smack me around if this is a FAQ.  But it's not in the FAQ.

I just installed majordomo, and config-test tells me everything is okay
except that it can't write a lock in $homedir.  That's by design -- I
installed it out of the ports tree on OpenBSD 2.8, which puts it into
$homedir = /usr/local/lib/majordomo, and I have /usr mounted read-only.

What I don't understand is why it wants to write there.

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